Marie-Paul-Hyacinthe Meyer (January 17, 1840 - September 7, 1917), was a French philologist. January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ...

Biography

Meyer was born in Paris and enot at the Ecole des Chartes. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land...

In 1863 he joined the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque Nationale. In 1876 he became professor of the languages and literatures of southern Europe at the Collège de France. In 1882 he was made director of the Ecole des Chartes, and a year later was nominated a member of the Academy of Inscriptions. He was one of the founders of the Revue critique, and a founder and the chief contributor to Romania (1872). 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus, written by hand), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way. ... The new buildings of the library. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Courtyard of the Collège de France. ... 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ...

Paul Meyer began with the study of old Provençal literature, but subsequently did valuable work in many different departments of romance literature, and ranked as the chief authority on the French language of his era. Provençal literature is much more easily defined than the Provençal language in which it is expressed. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...

Works

• Rapports sur les documents manuscrits de l'ancienne littérature de la France conserves dans les bibliothèques de la Grande Bretagne (1871)
• Recueil d'anciens textes bas-latins, provencaux et français (2 parts, 1874-1876)
• Alexandre le Grand dans la littérature française du moyen âge (2 vols., 1886).
• L'Apocalypse en français au XIIIe siècle (Paris MS fr. 403) (1900-1, with Léopold Delisle)

He edited several of old French texts for the Societe des anciens textes français, the Société de l'histoire de France and independently. Among these may be mentioned: Illustrated Apocalypse manuscripts are manuscripts that contain the text of Revelation and/or a commentary on Revelation and also illustrations. ... Léopold Victor Delisle (October 24, 1826 - July 21, 1910), French bibliophile and historian, was born at Valognes (Manche). ... The Société de lhistoire de France (SHF) was established in 1833 at the instigation of the French minister of Public Instruction, François Guizot, in order to contribute to the renewal of scholarship fuelled by a widespread interest in national history, typical of the Romantic period. ...

• Aye d'Avignon (1861), with Guessard
• Flamenca (1865)
• the Histoire of Guillaume le Maréchal (3 vols., 1892-1902)
• Raoul de Cambrai (1882), with A. Longnon
• Fragments d'une vie de Saint Thomas de Canterbury (1885)
• Guillaume de la Barre (1894).

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References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.