Fernand Mossé
Fernand Mossé | |
|---|---|
| Born | Fernand, Lionel Mossé 25 May 1892 Marseille |
| Died | 10 July 1956 (aged 64) |
| Occupation | Philologist |
Fernand Mossé (25 May 1892 – 10 July 1956) was a 20th-century French philologist and historian, specialized in Germanic languages and German literature.
Biography
An agrégé of English, Fernand Mossé was a lecturer at the Bangor University in Wales. He later taught in lycées ('secondary education') in Nice and Nancy. In 1926, he was appointed Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études. In 1938, he defended his doctoral dissertation, Histoire de la forme périphrastique être + participe présent en germanique,[1] devoted to periphrastic forms of English. In 1949 he was appointed to the chair of languages and literatures of Germanic origin at the Collège de France.
Selected bibliography
- 1914: La Laxdoela Saga : légende historique islandaise, Paris, Alcan (translation)
- 1933: La Saga de Grettir, Paris, Aubier Montaigne (translation)
- 1938: Histoire de la forme périphrastique être + participe présent en germanique, Paris, Klincksieck
- 1942: Manuel de la langue gotique, Paris, Aubier Montaigne
- 1942: Manuel de l'allemand du Moyen Âge, des origines au XIVe siècle (with Alfred Jolivet), Paris, Aubier Montaigne
- 1946: Manuel de l'anglais du Moyen Âge, des origines au XIVe siècle, 4 vol., Paris, Aubier Montaigne
- 1947: Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue anglaise
- 1959: Histoire de la littérature allemande (ed), Aubier
References
- ↑ The Verb System of Present-Day American English. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. 4 December 2017. p. 30. ISBN 978-3-11-087390-0. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
External links
Categories:
- 1892 births
- 1956 deaths
- French Germanists
- Academic staff of the Collège de France
- Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études
- Linguists of Germanic languages
- Writers from Marseille
- Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
- 20th-century French philologists
- Academics of Bangor University