Alfred Jeanroy

Alfred Jeanroy (5 July 1859 – 13 March 1953) 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.