Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville (1827-1910)
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Life
| [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' 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; |
| Les Premiers Habitants de en Europe (1877), rep. and enl. [2nd edn.] 2 vols. (1889; 1894); 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 |
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Works
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).
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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. Kenney, Sources (1929), gives a bibliography of de Jubainville. (Stanford, p.88.)
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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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