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Que signifie « A resp. B » ?

This abbreviation appears multiple times in that book and other bibliographies, always under the form “A resp. B“. B is a Doctorate in Medicine student and has published a dissertatio written under the supervision of A.

The usual word resp. abbreviates in French is respectivement but would make no sense here.

Another possible word is responsable or responsabilité. That would make sense as A can be seen as the responsable of the student for his work.

A third option, my initial guess, would be the Latin responsa, meaning “reply (to)”. Many abbreviations present in these bibliographies are based on Latin words.

The fourth option is very close, and is the French respondant, modern French répondant (the one who replies), and is more than likely the right term as it perfectly matches the context:

Furetière Respondant

s. m. Celuy qui soustient des Theses en quelque science que ce soit. Il a ainsi argumenté contre le Respondant. Les distinguo sont extremement favorables aux Respondants.

TLFi Répondant

♦ Vx. Celui qui soutient une thèse et doit répondre aux objections. L’argumentant et le répondant. (Dict. XIXe et XXe s.).

Académie 8e édition Répondant :

Celui, celle qui répond. Il s’est dit spécialement de Celui qui subit un examen public, qui soutient une thèse. Le président et le répondant. Ce répondant a fort bien soutenu son examen, sa thèse.

This is confirmed too by looking to a German reference to this very same document:

656 Strauss, Laurentius [Praes.] u. Franz Peters (Frankf. a. M.) [Resp.]
Disputatio physico-medica de potu coffi.

Here Strauss is presiding (Latin praesidens) and Peters(en) is responding (Latin respondens).

Given the sentence:

a medical school dissertation written by Franz Peters (not Petersen) with Lorenz Strauss as his faculty advisor.

I suggest: responsable (“responsible”)

 

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