Émile Chatelain
Émile Chatelain (25 November 1851 – 26 November 1933) was a French Latinist and palaeographer.
Émile Chatelain | |
|---|---|
| Born | Émile Louis Marie Chatelain 25 November 1851 |
| Died | 26 November 1933 (aged 82) Paris |
| Occupation(s) | Latinist Palaeographer |
Biography
A member of the École française de Rome (1876–1877), collaborator of Henri Denifle for the Chartularium,[1] curator of the Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, whose catalogs of manuscripts and incunabula he wrote,[2] and study director at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Émile Chatelain was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1903.
He was behind the reissue of the French-Latin dictionary by Quicherat and Daveluy.
Holder of the chair of paleography at the École Pratique des Hautes Études from its origins, he became interested in manuscripts of the late antiquity and the early Middle Ages and especially the best represented writing, the Uncial script and the palimpsests. Under the influence of one of his listeners, Paul Legendre, he devoted considerable research to the use of Tironian notes.[3]
The archaeologist and epigrapher Louis Chatelain was his son.
Main works
His work includes two masterly series of facsimiles:
- Paléographie des classiques latins, Paris, 1884-1887 ;
- Introduction à la lecture des notes tironiennes, Paris, 1900, XVI-234 pages;
- Les palimpsestes latines, "Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études", 1904, (p. 5–44);
- Uncialis scriptura codicum Latinorum... Paris, 1901–1922.
References
- H. Denifle, Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis, sub auspiciis consilii generalis Facultatum Parisiensium, ex diversis bibliothecis tabulariisque collegit et cum authenticis chartis, Paris, Delalain, 1889-1897, 4 vol. in-fol.
- Notice de la BnF Read online
- Denis Muzerelle, « Un siècle de paléographie latine en France », dans Armando Petrucci et Alessandro Pratesi, Un Secolo di paleografia e diplomatica (1887-1986), per il centenario dell’Istituto di paleografia dell’Università di Roma, Roma, Gela, 1988, (p. 131–158), at page 136
External links
- Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Émile Chatelain on Persée
- Mélanges offerts à M. Émile Chatelain on Archive.org