Occupation Priest, writer Ethnicity Basque | Nationality French Name Pierre Lhande | |
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Notable works Dictionnaire basque-francais • L'emigration basque • Le Pays basque a vol d'oiseau • Mirentchu Died April 17, 1957, Tardets-Sorholus, France Parents Pauline Hegu, Jean-Pierre Bassagaitz | ||
Pierre Lhande Heguy (Basque: Pierre Allande Hegi) was born in Bayonne, France on 9 July 1877 and died 17 April 1957 in Tardets, Soule. For unknown reasons he was given his grandfather's surname, Lhande, as opposed to his father's surname Basagaitz.
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Biography
At the age of 8 when Lhande's father died he moved to Sauguis-Saint-Etienne in Soule with his mother. A young man, he joined the Seminary of Bayonne but was subsequently expelled due to his pre-occupation with poetry and the Basque language. He then joined the Jesuits of Rodez and moved to Belgium and later the Netherlands with the order. After a teaching spell in El Puerto de Santa Maria, he returned to Belgium and was ordained in August 1910. He returned to Hondarribia in the Northern Basque Country in 1911. He would remain in the Basque Country until his death in 1957 in the Saint-Antoine a Tardets home.
Works
The author of numerous pieces of writing, he is perhaps best known for his monumental 1926 Dictionnaire Basque-Francais of the Northern Basque dialects Labourdin, Lower Navarrese and Souletin.