Joseph Anglade

Born in Lézignan-Corbières on October 11, 1868, Joseph Anglade was a French philologist and Romanist whose work centered on Occitan and the poetry of the troubadours. He later taught in Toulouse, where he became an important academic voice in the study of southern languages and literature.

He is especially remembered for helping establish wider use of the term Occitan instead of the older, narrower label Provençal for the language of southern France. His scholarship covered medieval lyric poetry, grammar, and literary history, and he published major studies on troubadours as well as grammars of Old Provençal and Old French.

Anglade also played an institutional role in the field: sources describe him as the founder of the Societat d'Estudis Occitans, a forerunner of the Institut d'Estudis Occitans, and as the founder of an institute for southern studies in Toulouse. He died in Toulouse on July 13, 1930, but his books and ideas continued to shape Occitan studies long after his lifetime.