Roparz Hemon (18 November 1900 in
BrestBrest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in north-western France.Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, Brest is an important seaport and naval base. The 1999 census recorded 303,484 inhabitants of the Brest metropolitan area, while the...
– 29 June 1978 in
DublinDublin is the largest city and capital of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath or Áth Cliath ; the English name comes from the Irish Dubh Linn meaning "black pool". It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the...
) was a
BretonFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
author and scholar of
BretonThe Breton language is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France.-History:Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish,...
expression.
He was the author of numerous dictionaries, grammars, poems and short stories. He also founded
GwalarnGwalarn was a Breton language literary journal. By extension, the term refers to the style of literature that it encouraged. 166 issues appeared between 1925 and May 1944....
, a literary journal in Breton where many young authors published their first writings during the 1920s and 1930s.
Hemon served in the
French ArmyThe French Army, officially the Armée de Terre , is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces and its largest. As of 2008, the army employs 133,947 regular soldiers and 24 000+ civilians...
at the beginning of the Second World War, where he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Germans.
Back in Brest in August 1940, he took back publishing
Gwalarn.
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Roparz Hemon (18 November 1900 in
BrestBrest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in north-western France.Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, Brest is an important seaport and naval base. The 1999 census recorded 303,484 inhabitants of the Brest metropolitan area, while the...
– 29 June 1978 in
DublinDublin is the largest city and capital of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath or Áth Cliath ; the English name comes from the Irish Dubh Linn meaning "black pool". It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the...
) was a
BretonFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
author and scholar of
BretonThe Breton language is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France.-History:Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish,...
expression.
He was the author of numerous dictionaries, grammars, poems and short stories. He also founded
GwalarnGwalarn was a Breton language literary journal. By extension, the term refers to the style of literature that it encouraged. 166 issues appeared between 1925 and May 1944....
, a literary journal in Breton where many young authors published their first writings during the 1920s and 1930s.
Hemon served in the
French ArmyThe French Army, officially the Armée de Terre , is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces and its largest. As of 2008, the army employs 133,947 regular soldiers and 24 000+ civilians...
at the beginning of the Second World War, where he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Germans.
Back in Brest in August 1940, he took back publishing
Gwalarn. In November 1940, he was appointed at
Radio Roazhon-Breizh,
Breton languageThe Breton language is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France.-History:Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish,...
weekly broadcast set up by the
Propagandastaffel. From 1941, he directed the weekly publication
Arvor, where he made several anti-semitic statements. In October 1942, Hemon was appointed by
Leo Weisgerber Leo Weisgerber was a Lorraine-born German linguist specializing in Celtic linguistics. He developed the "organicist" theory that different languages produce different experiences...
to help found the "Celtic Institute of Britanny". Hemon rendered other services to the Germans, like helping in constituting files against
préfetA prefect in France is the State's representative in a department or region. Sub-prefects are responsible for the subdivisions of departments, arrondissements...
Ripert.
At the Liberation, Hemon fled to Germany; he returned in 1945, was imprisoned for one year, and sentenced to ten years of
Indignité nationaleIndignité nationale was a legally defined offence, created at the Liberation in the context of the “Épuration légale”....
He went in exile to
IrelandIreland is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain...
.
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Lettre ouverte à Monsieur le Maire de Guingamp