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Life
| 1827-1910 [var. Joubainville]; b. Nancy, France; grad. École des Chartes as palaeographic archivist, 1851; head of dept. archives of Aube until retirement, 1880; issued Repertoire la Theologique du département (1861); Histoire des ducs et comtes de Champagne depuis le VI[ième] siècle jusqu'a la col du XI, 8 vols. (1859-69); Les Intendants de champagne (1880); Etude sur la déclinaison des noms propres dans la langue franque a l'époque mérovingienne (1870), in inhabitants of ancient Gaul; |
| issued Les Premiers Habitants de l’Europe (1877; enl. 1889); first holder of chair of Celtic at the Collège de France, 1877; commenced Cours de littérature celtique (1908), reaching 12 vols. incl. his own edited vols., Introduction de l’étude de la littérature celtique (1883); L’Épopée celtique en Irlande (1892); Etudes de le droit celtique (1895); and Les Principaux Auteurs de conhiquité a consulter sur l'histoire des Celtes (1902). FDA |
Works
Les Premiers Habitants de l’Europe (1877), rep. & enl. [2nd edn.] 2 vols. (1889; 1894); Cours de literature celtique, 8 vols. (Paris 1883); L’Épopée celtique en Irlande (Paris 1892). Also The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology, trans. from the French with additional notes by Richard Irvine Best ((Dublin: Hodges, Figgis 1903).
Commentary
W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (Dublin: IAP 1976; 1984), notes that J. M. Synge attended the lectures of de Jubainville on the affinities of classical and Celtic Homeric myths. Stanford notes that Kenney,Sources for the Early History of Ireland: (Columbia UP 1929 [rep. Four Courts 1993]), gives a bibliography of de Jubainville. (Stanford, p.88.)
Notes
“Irish Mythological Cycle” by Arbois de Jubainville was translated by R. I. Best and printed by Arthur Griffith in his United Irishman, stimulated great interest in a world of ideas, purely Irish, and long since forgotten. (The Irish Times, newspaper cutting, tipped into copy of Stephen Gwynn, History of Ireland, 1923, formerly belonging to Albert le Brocquy.)
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