Joseph Loth

Joseph Loth , born with Guémené-on-Scorff the December 27th 1847 and dead on April 1st 1934, is a French linguist and historian who is particularly interested in the Celtic languages, of which the Breton.

Biography

After having made its studies with Holy-Anne-in Auray, it becomes teaching with Pontivy, then with Quimper and Saumur until the Guerre of 1870. At the end of the conflict, it takes again its trade in Parisian establishments. It is at that time that it becomes acquainted with Henri d' Arbois of Jubainville, which encourages it to study the Celtic languages. In 1883, it is named with the Faculty of Arts of Rennes, where it teaches the Celtic languages. This same year, it founds the Annales of Brittany , re-examined in which it publishes many texts and of which it assumes the direction until in 1910. It is named professor with the Collège de France in 1910 and it is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1919.

Joseph Loth published many texts in the Celtic Revue , republished the dictionary of Pierre de Chalons, prefaced Jean-Pierre Calloc' H, and translated into French of the texts of other Celtic languages (Mabinogion). Contrary to much of its pars, it was a partisan of the precise study of the dialects.

Joseph Loth took the continuation of Henri d' Arbois of Jubainville to the head of the Celtic Revue with, like director-assistants and collaborators, Georges Dottin, Emile Ernault and Joseph Vendryes, holder of the pulpit of languages and literatures Celtic with the practical École of the high studies. Georges Dottin was replaced with its death by Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

After the death of Joseph Loth, announced and with accompanying notes in an eulogistic text obituary at the head of booklet 1-2 of the first trimeste of 1934 of the Celtic Re-examined , Joseph Vendryes founded the review Celtic Études .

Writings

  • the Breton Emigration in Armorique of Ve at the VII century of our era , Rennes 1883 republication Slatkine Reprints Paris-Geneva-Gex 1980 (ISBN 2051001022)
  • old man-Breton Vocabulary , 1884
  • Remarques on the Bas vannetais , 1886
  • Mabinogi de Kulhwch and Olwen , drawn with share from the Revue of Brittany and the Vendée , March/April/May 1888, ED. Industrial tribunal, Saint-Brieuc.
  • the Dialect of the Island to the Monks , 1893, (republished and corrected by Patrick Besco, Ar Skol vrezoneg/Emgleo Breiz, Brest, 1999)
  • Chrestomathie Breton

See too

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