Émile Haguenin

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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.

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personal data
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