Fernand Mossé (25 May 1892 – 10 July 1956) was a 20th-century French philologist and historian, specialized in Germanic languages and German literature.
Fernand Mossé | |
|---|---|
| Born | Fernand, Lionel Mossé 25 May 1892 Marseille |
| Died | 10 July 1956 (aged 64) |
| Occupation | Philologist |
Biography
editAn agrégé[needs translation] 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 directeur d'études [needs translation] at the École pratique des hautes études.[needs translation] In 1938, he defended his doctoral dissertation, 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.[needs translation]
Selected bibliography
edit- 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
