Jean Le Dû

Jean Le Dû (28 March 1938 – 6 May 2020) was a French linguist of the Breton language.[1][2]

Jean Le Dû
Born28 March 1938
Dieppe, France
Died6 May 2020(2020-05-06) (aged 82)
Saint-Quay-Portrieux, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationLinguist

Biography

For fifty years, Le Dû collected documents on the Breton language in Plougrescant. In 2012, he published a dictionary for Breton and French translations, titled Le trégorrois à Plougrescant.[3] His discovery of the language came during his childhood in Dieppe.[4]

Le Dû held a doctoral degree in phonetic English. He worked at the University of Rennes and taught courses in Breton, Irish, and other Celtic languages. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Western Brittany. Le Dû was the Director of Research Group 9 of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 1988 to 1996.[5]

Le Dû was a member of the French Communist Party. He was married to a professor of physics and chemistry, and had two daughters named Mai and Donaig.[10] He died on 6 May 2020 at the age of 82 in Saint-Quay-Portrieux.[6]

Works
  • Dictionnaire pratique français-breton (1976)
  • Ar brezoneg dre zelled, kleved, komz ha lenn (1993)
  • Nouvel atlas linguistique de la Basse-Bretagne (2001)
  • Proverbes et Dictions de Basse-Bretagne
  • Anthologie des expressions de Basse-Bretagne (1999)
  • Du café vous aurez? (2002)
  • Une vie irlandaise du Connemara à Ráth Chairn, histoire de la vie de Micil Chonraí (2010)
  • Le trégorrois à Plougrescant. Dictionnaire breton français (2012)
  • Le trégorrois à Plougrescant. Dictionnaire français breton (2012)

References
  1. "Disparition du linguiste Jean Le Dû". Ouest France (in French). 6 May 2020.
  2. "Disparition de Jean Le Dû, professeur émérite de breton à l'UBO". Le Télégramme (in French). 7 May 2020.
  3. "Breton. "Le trégorrois à Plougrescant" par J. Le Dû". Le Télégramme (in French). 11 July 2012.
  4. "Jean Le Dû publie son dico du breton trégorrois". Ouest France (in French). 11 July 2012.
  5. "Jean Le Dû". Université de Bretagne Occidentale (in French).
  6. "Aet eo ar yezhoniour Jean Le Dû da Anaon". France 3 Bretagne (in Breton). 6 May 2020.
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