Albert Mathiez

Albert Mathiez (born January 10, 1874 in La Bruyère , Haute-Saône, † February 25, 1932 in Paris ) was a socialist French historian. With his work on the French Revolution and as the founder of the Société des études robespierristes , he is one of the central figures in French revolutionary history.

After his military service, he studied from 1894 at the renowned École normal supérieure . Even during his studies he saw himself as a socialist. He specialized in the history of the revolution.

At the suggestion of his teacher Alphonse Aulard , he first turned to the religious history of the revolution. In 1907 he broke with his teacher Aulard by founding the Société des études robespierristes , and the society's published magazine Les Annales révolutionnaires (from 1923: Annales historiques de la Révolution française ) was in direct competition with Aulard's La Révolution française . He was editor until 1932.

In 1911 Mathiez was appointed to a professorship in Besançon, which he left in 1919 in favor of a new professorship in Dijon. Mathiez left a lasting mark on the history of the French Revolution in terms of both content and institution.

He died of a cerebral haemorrhage in front of his students on February 25, 1932 during a lecture in the Amphithéâtre Michelet of the Sorbonne .

Works (selection)

• La Théophilanthropie et le culte décadaire sous le Directoire . 1904
• Les Origines des cultes révolutionnaires (1789-1792) . 1904
• Contributions to the history of religieuse de la Révolution française . 1906
• La Révolution et l'Église . 1910
• Rome et le clergé français sous la Constituante . 1911
• La Vie chère et le mouvement social sous la Terreur . Paris: Armand Colin, 1927
• Girondins et Montagnards . 1930 (reprint 1988)
• Le 10 août . Paris: Gallimard, 1931
• Voyages en France en 1787, 1788 et 1789 / Arthur Young; première traduction complète et critique par Henri Sée, ... Paris: Armand Colin, 1931
• La Révolution française (jusqu'au 9 Thermidor) (3 volumes), Paris: Armand Colin, 1922–1924. (Digital copies (partly newer edition): I. La chute de la royauté (1787-1792) , II. La Gironde et la Montagne , III. La Terreur ). - A version translated into German was published under the name The French Revolution by the Gutenberg Book Guild in Zurich (Volume 1 and 2 1940, Volume 3 1950), another edition was published by the European Publishing House, Hamburg 1950
• Études sur la Révolution française . 1954
• Études sur Robespierre . Paris, 1958

literature

• James Friguglietti: Albert Mathiez: historien révolutionnaire (1874–1932). ( Bibliothèque d'histoire révolutionnaire 3 ^e série, N ^o 14). Paris: Societé des études robespierristes 1974
• The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 2, page 130

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Mathiez in the catalog of the German National Library