Achille Luchaire

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Achille Luchaire

Denis Jean Achille Luchaire (born October 24, 1846 in Paris ; † November 13, 1908 there ) was a French medieval historian and philologist.

Luchaire attended the Lycée Saint-Étienne in Lyon and the Lycée Henri IV in Paris and studied from 1866 at the École normal supérieure de Paris with the agrégation in history in 1869. He received his doctorate in 1877, was from 1869 Chargé de cours for history at the Lyceum in Pau and from 1874 professor at the Lyceum in Bordeaux , where he was also professor of the history and language of the Midi from 1877 at the Faculté des lettres (university) (from 1879 also of geography). From 1885 he taught at the Sorbonne as a charge de cours for historical auxiliary sciences. From 1888 he also added Fustel de Coulanges to his chair for medieval history and was his successor in 1889.

In 1895 he became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . In 1908 he received their Prix Jean Reynaud.

Luchaire did his doctorate on Alain d'Albret . In addition to the history of the Middle Ages, he dealt with the philology of Basque and the Gascon language. His major work is a history of royal institutions and kingship in France under the early Capetians . He also wrote contributions to the series Histoire de la France au Moyen Âge of Ernest Lavisse (so about Philip II. , Louis VII. , Louis VIII. ) And that of Berthold Zeller published series L'Histoire de France racontée par les contemporains (about Pope Innocent III ).

He was an officer in the Legion of Honor .

He was married to a daughter of the historian Jules Zeller . One son was the writer, Romanist and historian Julien Luchaire (1876–1962), who in turn was the father of the journalist Jean Luchaire who was shot as a collaborator (father of the actress Corinne Luchaire ).

A street in the 14th arrondissement of Paris is named after him.

Fonts

  • Alain le Grand, sire d'Albret. L'Administration royale et la Féodalité du Midi (1440–1522), Paris: Hachette 1877, Geneva 1974
  • De Lingua Aquitanica, Paris: Hachette 1877
  • Les Origines linguistiques de l'Aquitaine, Pau 1877
  • Études sur les idiomes pyrénéens de la région française, Paris: Maisonneuve 1879, new edition Geneva: Slatkine 1973
  • Recueil de textes de l'ancien dialecte gascon d'après les documents antérieurs au XIVe siècle, suivi d'un glossaire, Paris: Maisonneuve 1884
  • Philippe-Auguste, Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1881
  • Histoire des institutions monarchiques de la France sous les premiers Capétiens (987–1180), 2 volumes, Paris, Imprimerie nationale 1883 (2nd edition 1891, new edition Brussels 1964)
  • Histoire des institutions monarchiques de la France sous les premiers Capétiens, mémoires et documents. Études sur les actes de Louis VII, Paris: Picard 1885
  • Recherches historiques & diplomatiques sur les premières années de la vie de Louis le Gros, 1081–1100, Paris: Picard 1886
  • Les Communes françaises à l'époque des Capétiens directs, Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1890, new edition Geneva: Slatkine 1977.
  • Louis VI le Gros, annales de sa vie et de son règne (1081–1137), avec une introduction historique, Paris: Alphonse Picard 1890, new edition Geneva: Mégariotis, 1979
  • Manuel des institutions françaises: période des Capétiens directs, 1892, new edition Geneva: Mégariotis, 1979
  • L'Université de Paris sous Philippe-Auguste, Paris, A. Chevalier-Marescq et Cie éditeurs, 1899
  • Étude sur quelques manuscrits de Rome et de Paris, 1899, therein:
    • Les Œuvres de Suger. La Chronique de Morigni. Le Fragment de l'histoire d'Anjou, attribuée à Foulque le Réchin. Les Annales de Jumièges. Un cartulaire de Saint-Vincent de Laon. Un manuscrit de Soissons. Les Miracula sancti Dionysii. Les Recueils épistolaires de l'abbaye de Saint-Victor.
  • Les Premiers Capétiens: 987–1137, Hachette 1901 (from Lavisse, Histoire de France illustrée depuis les origines jusqu'à la Révolution, new edition Tallandier 1980)
  • Innocent III, 6 volumes, Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1904 to 1908
    • Volume 1 Rome et l'Italie 1904, Volume 2 La Croisade des Albigeois 1905, Volume 3 La papauté et l'empire, 1906, Volume 4 La question d'Orient 1907, Volume 5 Les royautés vassales du Saint-Siège, 1908, volume 6: Le concile de Latran et la réforme de l'Église: avec une bibliographie et une table générale des six volumes 1908
  • La Société française au temps de Philippe-Auguste, Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1909. New edition Geneva: Slatkine, 1974. English translation: Social France at the time of Philip Augustus, J. Murray 1912
  • Philippe Auguste et son temps, J. Tallandier, Paris, 1980. (from the Histoire de la France au Moyen âge, ed. Ernest Lavisse)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Achille Luchaire in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
personal data
SURNAME Luchaire, Achille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luchaire, Denis Jean Achille (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medieval historian and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1908
Place of death Paris