Émile Egger

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Auguste-Émile Egger (born July 18, 1813 in Paris ; † September 1, 1885 ibid) was a French Graecist and professor of Greek literature.

biography

Egger's family originally came from Carinthia in Austria , from the village of Strasbourg , which at the time had around 2000 inhabitants . His great-grandfather worked there as a master tailor. His grandfather then moved to France, where he married and settled in Orléans . It was there that his father, Gaston-Maximilien, was born. As a result of military service, he came to Paris in the turmoil of the French Revolution in 1797, where he married Anne-Victurnienne Decors and settled as a tapestry . The two had six children, four of whom died young. Only Egger and his older sister Anne-Ida survived.

Egger's father was not just a tapestry, he also developed prostheses , worked with hot air balloons and invented a folding tent, which was presented in 1827 at the exposition des produits de l'industrie française . Egger assisted his father in presenting the tent in one of the Louvre courtyards and demonstrated the mechanism. He also helped his father develop a new type of windmill.

From 1823 Egger went to the Lycée Saint-Louis as an external worker , which he mastered with flying colors. There he excelled in history, math, French and Latin, but notably, he was mediocre in Greek. When Egger's father died in 1830, the family fell into poverty and his mother supported the family with handicrafts. Egger had to leave school, but continued his studies independently in order to complete his baccalaureate at the Lycée Henri IV in 1831 . This was followed by studies at the École normal supérieure , where he mainly conducted literature studies. He also attended natural science lectures with Louis Jacques Thénard , Pierre Louis Dulong and Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet .

In 1832 he obtained his licentiate and then taught at the Lycée Saint-Louis , the Lycée Henri-IV and later at the Lycée Charlemagne . In addition, between 1831 and 1834 he directed the repetitions at the Collège de la Marche and the Institute Vauthier in Latin and Greek. Finally , Egger received his doctorate in 1834 at the age of 21. Egger then worked as a teacher in Greek rhetoric and was able to teach the preparatory class for the Baccalauréat at the Lycée Charlemagne for the first time in 1838. In the same year he also taught the 10th grade at the Lycée Henri-IV.

In 1839 he received an adequate permanent position at the Lycée Charlemagne, which he gave up in 1840 in favor of a teaching position for Greek grammar at the École normal supérieure. Egger married Élisabeth Dehèque in 1844, the daughter of the Graecist Félix Désiré Dehèque . This marriage was to have three children, Ida, Victor and Maximilien. In 1854 Egger was accepted into the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , which one year later earned him the chair of Greek literature at the Faculté des lettres de Paris , which he held until his death.

In 1879 Egger was appointed commander of the Legion of Honor .

Works (excerpt)

  • De l'influence du papyrus egyptien sur le développement de la littérature grecque , 1842
  • Examen critique des historiens anciens de la vie et du règne d'Auguste , 1844
  • Apollonius Dyscole: essai sur l'histoire des théories grammaticales dans l'antiquité , 1854
  • Mémoires d'histoire ancienne et de philologie , 1863
  • Études historiques sur les traités publics chez les Grecs et chez les Romains , 1866

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official culture server of France: Eleonore: Certificate of Appointment Émile Eggers , accessed on January 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Egger, Émile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egger, Auguste-Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Graecist and Professor of Greek Literature
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1885
Place of death Paris