Émile Haguenin
Émile Haguenin (* 1872 in Cuchery , Département Marne ; † 1924 ) was a French literary scholar and diplomat, Germanist, Romanist and Italianist.
life and work
Haguenin was a student at the École normal supérieure and in 1896 passed the Agrégation de Lettres. In 1901 he became an associate professor for French at the seminar for oriental languages (1902 also at the Romance seminar) of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , but made little scientific progress.
When the First World War broke out in 1914, he returned to Paris and in 1915 was sent to the French Embassy in Bern on a diplomatic and secret service mission (officially as head of the press office). From 1916 to 1917 he had unofficial talks with the German side to explore a compromise peace. From 1919 he played an important role in Berlin in monitoring the resolutions of the Versailles Peace . Among other things, he was head of the delegation of the guarantee committee and chairman of the guarantee commission of the reparations commission . Until 1924 he headed the Bureau d'études économiques et sociales of the French Foreign Ministry in Berlin .
Works
- Notes sur les universités italiennes , Paris 1901 (first in: Revue internationale de l'enseignement 1898 and 1899)
- Un poète romain: Belli, in: R evue des deux mondes April 1, 1902, pp. 674–708
- Grazia Deledda, in: Revue des deux mondes March 15, 1903, pp. 391-425
literature
- Louise Weiss, Combats pour l'Europe , 1919-1934, Paris 1979, p. 186
- Jean-Claude Montant, "Émile Haguenin, un homme d'influence", in: Écritures franco-allemandes de la Grande Guerre , ed. by Jean-Jacques Pollet and Anne-Marie Saint-Gille, Amiens 1996
- Alexander M. Kalkhoff, Romance Philology in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries , Tübingen 2010, p. 151
- Marion Aballéa, "Une diplomatie de professeurs au cœur de l'Allemagne vaincue. La mission Haguenin à Berlin (mars 1919-juin 1920)", in: Relations internationales 150, 2012
- Landry Charrier: L'émigration allemande en Suisse pendant la Grande Guerre, Genève, Slatkine, 2015.
Web links
- Literature by and about Émile Haguenin in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
- Émile Haguenin in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
- Olivier Lahaie, "Face à l'Allemagne vaincue, les services de renseignement français (November 1918-avril 1919)", Revue historique des armées [En ligne], 251 | 2008, mis en ligne le 20 juin 2008, consulté le 31 juillet 2014. URL: http://rha.revues.org/299 (here: note 58)
- http://www.histoire-politique.fr/index.php?numero=11&rub=autres-articles&item=54#haut_page (Landry Charrier, À la recherche d'une paix de compromis: Kessler, Haguenin et la diplomatie officieuse de l 'hiver 1916-1917, in: Histoire @ Politique 11, 2010)
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SURNAME | Haguenin, Émile |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haguenin, François-Emile; Haguenin, E. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French literary scholar and diplomat, Germanist, Romanist and Italianist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1872 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cuchery , Marne department |
DATE OF DEATH | 1924 |