Fernand Mossé

Fernand Mossé (25 May 1892 – 10 July 1956) was a 20th-century French philologist and historian, specialized in Germanic languages and German literature.

Biography An of English, Fernand Mossé was a lecturer at the Bangor University in Wales. He later taught in in Nice and Nancy. In 1926, he was appointed Director of Studies at the . In 1938, he defended his doctoral dissertation, Histoire de la forme périphrastique être + participe présent en germanique, devoted to periphrastic forms of English. In 1949 he was appointed to the chair of languages and literatures of Germanic origin at the .

Selected bibliography 1914: La Laxdoela Saga : légende historique islandaise, Paris, Alcan (translation) 1933: La Saga de Grettir, Paris, Aubier Montaigne (translation) 1938: Histoire de la forme périphrastique être + participe présent en germanique, Paris, Klincksieck 1942: Manuel de la langue gotique, Paris, Aubier Montaigne 1942: Manuel de l'allemand du Moyen Âge, des origines au XIVe siècle (with Alfred Jolivet), Paris, Aubier Montaigne 1946: Manuel de l'anglais du Moyen Âge, des origines au XIVe siècle, 4 vol., Paris, Aubier Montaigne 1947: Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue anglaise 1959: Histoire de la littérature allemande (ed), Aubier