Jules Feller Explained

Jules Feller
Birth Date:4 November 1859
Birth Place:Roubaix
Death Place:Verviers
Language:French and Walloon
Nationality:Belgian
Genre:Linguistics
Notableworks:Essai d'orthographe wallonne, 1900
Notes de philologie wallonne, 1912
Signature:Jules Feller signature.png

Jules Feller (4 November 1859  - 29 April 1940) was a Belgian academician and Walloon militant.

Biography

Jules Feller created the of spelling for the Walloon language. This is also used for writing the Picard language since a consensus arose between universities in favour of the written form known as Feller-Carton (based on the Walloon spelling system  - which was developed by Feller and adapted for Picard by Prof. Fernand Carton).

He represented Verviers in the from 1919 until his death. He was a member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature in Belgium.