Jean Boutière (1 November 1898 – 29 January 1967) was a French

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

and a specialist in

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. He was born in

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, Bouches-du-Rhône in France. Jean Boutière was born 1 November 1898 in the area of the department

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. After finishing high school in

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, he followed the faculty of letters to

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and

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, taking his license in philology in 1920. In the same year, Boutière became a professor at the French University Mission in Romania and taught the French language at ''

Emanoil Gojdu Emanuil Gojdu ( Hungarian: ''Gozsdu Emánuel'', mostly referred as ''Gozsdu Manó''; 9 February 1802, Nagyvárad, Hungary (now Oradea, Romania)—3 February 1870, Pest-Buda, Hungary) was an ethnically Romanian lawyer in the Kingdom of Hunga ...

'' University in

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, instead of Pascal Zigliara, who was transferred to

Cluj Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

. In Oradea, he kept busy taking school courses at a military administration school. 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 Ion Creangă, a Romanian novelist. To complete it, enter into a contract with the French teacher G. T. Kirileanu,

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, D. Furtună,

Garabet Ibrăileanu Garabet Ibrăileanu (; May 23, 1871 – March 11, 1936) was a Romanian-Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, translator, sociologist, University of Iași professor (1908–1934), and, together with Paul Bujor and Constantin Stere, fo ...

, maintained a close correspondence, and they supplied many documents and testimonies about Ion Creangă. Once completed the work, he defended his

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at the Sorbonne on 24 May 1930. The first major monograph about Ion Creangă 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

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, volume was crowned with the Romanian Academy Award. Boutiére returned to France in 1922, and left to replace J. Linard at Oradea, while he functioned as a teacher at Coeneille in

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, then as the head of the department of the Romanian language at the National School of Oriental Languages, and finally as the successor of Mario Roques at the 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 Constantin Ciopraga,. *It is nominated in the "Historical Collections of Libraries" of

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in the ''Nouvelles roumaines – Anthologie des prosateurs roumains'', 1962, preface by

Tudor Vianu Tudor Vianu (; January 8, 1898 – May 21, 1964) was a Romanian literary criticism, literary critic, art critic, poet, philosopher, academic, and translation, translator. He had a major role on the reception and development of Modernism in Liter ...

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 French philologists French male writers Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies 20th-century French male writers 20th-century French philologists People from Mallemort