- Léon Fleuriot
Léon Fleuriot (1923-1987) was a French academic specializing in
Celtic languages (Old Breton, Welsh and Irish) and in history, particularly that of Gallo-RomanBrittany and of theEarly Middle Ages .Born on
5 April 1923 inMorlaix , Brittany, in a family originating in the region ofQuintin and having studied Breton in his youth, he passed his university history "agrégation " in 1950. He taught at "lycée s" and "" inParis and the surrounding suburbs, as well as at thePrytanée National Militaire inLa Flèche . He entered theCentre national de la recherche scientifique in 1958 and earned his doctorate at theSorbonne University in 1964, defending a thesis called "Le vieux-breton, éléments d'une grammaire" ("Old Breton, an Elementary Grammar"), along with a complementary thesis, "Dictionnaire des gloses en vieux-breton" ("Dictionary of Old BretonGloss es").In 1966, Fleuriot was named chair of at the
Université de Haute-Bretagne inRennes , and at the same time research director at theÉcole Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. He strongly contributed to the growth of Breton language teaching at the university level. He died suddenly inParis on15 March 1987 , leaving much of his research unfinished.Works
A bibliography has been established by
Gwennole ar Menn in "Bretagne et pays celtiques, langues, histoire, civilisation" (Skol, PUR, 1982), a collection of articles in honour of Léon Fleuriot.
* "Le vieux breton, Éléments d'une grammaire," Paris, Klincksieck, 1964.
* "Dictionnaire des gloses en vieux breton," Paris, Klincksieck, 1964.
* "A Dictionary of Old Breton - Dictionnaire du vieux breton." Toronto, Prepcorp Limited, 1985. Apparently a reissue of the work appearing in 1964.
*"Les origines de la Bretagne," Librairie Payot, Paris, 1980.
*"Notes lexicographiques et philologiques" (collection of articles published in the journal " Études celtiques", collected by Gwennole ar Menn), Skol, 1997.
* Articles in "Annales de Bretagne, Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Finistère, Études celtiques, Hor Yezh."
*"Récits et poèmes celtiques", Paris, Stock, 1981.
*"L'histoire littéraire et culturelle de la Bretagne (volume1)," Paris, Geneva, 1993.References
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Fleuriot Léon Fleuriot] from the French-language Wikipedia. Retrieved
28 June 2006.
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