Alfred Michiels
Joseph Alfred Xavier Michiels (born December 25, 1813 in Rome , † October 28, 1892 in Paris ) was a French writer and historian .
Michiels, who came from a Dutch family, came to France with them in 1817, studied law in Strasbourg from 1834, but then turned exclusively to literary and art history in Paris .
He published:
- Études sur l'Allemagne (1839, reprint 1845, 2nd edition 1850);
- Histoire des idées littéraires en France au XIX. siècle (1842, 2 vols.);
- Voyage d'un amateur en Angleterre (1844, 4th ed. 1872);
- Histoire de la peinture flamande et hollandaise (Brussels 1845, 4 vol .; new edition 1865–1876, 10 vol.), A work that involved him in a violent polemic with Arsène Houssaye , with the continuation:
- L'art flamand dans l'est et le midi de la France (1877);
- L'architecture et la peinture en Europe depuis le V. au XVI. siècle (1853, 3rd ed. 1873);
- Rubens et l'école d'Anvers (4th ed. 1877);
- Histoire secrete du gouvernement autrichien (4th edition 1878);
- Histoire de la politique autrichienne depuis Marie-Thérèse (1861);
- Le comte de Bismarck (1871);
- Les droits de la France sur l'Alsace et la Lorraine (1871);
- Histoire de la guerre franco-prussienne (1872);
- L'invasion prussienne en 1792 (1880);
- Van Dyck et ses élèves (1880) et al .; besides the popular ones
- Contes des montagnes (1857) and
- Drames politiques (1865)
Web links
Wikisource: Alfred Michiels - Sources and full texts (French)
- Literature by and about Alfred Michiels in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michiels, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Michiels, Joseph Alfred Xavier (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1892 |
| Place of death | Paris |