Alfred Jeanroy

Alfred Jeanroy (1859–1954) was a French linguist.

Jeanroy was born at Mangiennes, Meuse, Lorraine. He was a leading scholar studying troubadour poetry, publishing over 600 works.[1] He established an influential view of the second generation of troubadours divided into two camps: “idealists” (e.g. Jaufre Rudel, Ebles de Ventadorn) and “realists” (e.g. Marcabru).[2]

Notes

  1. L'enseignement de l'occitan à l'Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail
  2. Amelia E. Van Vleck, The Lyric Texts, p. 28, in A Handbook of the Troubadours (1995), F. R. P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis editors.