Jean Boutière (1 November 1898 – 29 January 1967) was a French philologist, specialist in

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. He was born in Mallemort, Bouches-du-Rhône in France. Fascinated by the life and creations of writer

Ion Creangă Ion Creangă (; also known as Nică al lui Ștefan a Petrei, Ion Torcălău and Ioan Ștefănescu; March 1, 1837 – December 31, 1889) was a Moldavian, later Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th-century Romania ...

, and by instigation of Mario Roques, professor at the Sorbonne, Boutière has made the work ''"La vie et l'oeuvre de Ion Creangă"'' ("The Life of Ion Creangă"), acribios study, his doctorate from the Sorbonne, which he initiated in 1924 and argued as his doctoral thesis on 24 May 1930. It was also during the

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that Jean Boutière published the first-ever

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on the Romanian writer, originally as a Doctor of Philosophy thesis for the University of Paris. During the thesis work, he corresponded with George T. Kirileanu, Arthur Gorovei, D. Furtună, Garabet Ibrăileanu, which have supported the documentary. Jean Boutière was head of the department of the Romanian and then of the

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of the Sorbonne. His works were translated into

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by Daniel Corbu. Jean Boutière was born 1 November 1898 in the area of the department Mallemort, Bouche-du-Rhone. After finishing high school in Marseille, follow the Faculty of letters from

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and Toulouse, taking his license in 1920. In the same year comes as a young professor of

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in Romania and will teach French language at ''

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'' University in

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, instead of

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, who was transferred to Cluj. In Oradea he kept school courses at

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. For two years, while he lived in Romania, he learned the Romanian language and made numerous trips to know the beauty of Romanian country, customs and traditions of the Romanian people. In 1924, urged by Mario Roques, professor at the Sorbonne, Jean Boutière choose his doctoral thesis the life and works of

, a Romanian novelist. To complete it, enter into a contract with the French teacher G. T. Kirileanu,

Artur Gorovei Arthur Gorovei (born 19 February 1864, Fălticeni – d. 19 March 1951, Bucharest) was a Romanian writer, folklorist Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kin ...

, D. Furtună, Garabet Ibrăileanu, maintained a close correspondence, and they supplied many documents and testimonies about

. Once completed the work, he defended his doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne on 24 May 1930. The first major monograph about

was printed in Paris in 1930, having been well received not only in France but also in Romania, where, in 1932, in the report compiled by Mihail Sadoveanu, volume was crowned with the

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. Returned to France in 1922, Jean Boutière leaves to replace J. Linard at Oradea, while he functioning as a teacher at " Coeneille" in

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, then as head of the department of Romanian language at National School of Oriental languages, living and finally, as the successor of Mario Roques at Sorbonne.

Books

*''La vie et l'oeuvre de Ion Creangă'', Published by Librairie Universitaire J. Gamber Paris, 1930 *''Viaţa şi opera lui Ion Creangă'', Editura Junimea, Iaşi, 1976, în traducerea lui

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,. *It is nominated in the "Historical Collections of Libraries" of UNESCO in the ''Nouvelles roumaines – Anthologie des prosateurs roumains'', 1962, preface by Tudor Vianu

References

External links

Cornelia Ştefănescu, ''Mărturii despre Ion Creangă'', România Literară, Nr. 15, 2003
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boutiere, Jean 1898 births 1967 deaths University of Paris alumni People from Bouches-du-Rhône French philologists French male writers Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies 20th-century French male writers 20th-century philologists