Amédée Thierry

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Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry

Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry (born August 2, 1797 in Blois , † March 27, 1873 in Paris ) was a French historian , journalist and politician .

Life

Amédée Thierry was a younger brother of the French historian Augustin Thierry . He initially devoted himself to public teaching and in 1819 became the tutor of Talleyrand's great nephews . Then he worked as a journalist, including at the Revue encyclopédique , and also got a job as a minor government official. His first book, published in 1825, contained a brief history of the Guyenne .

As a historian, Thierry wrote several excellent works on the ancient history of France. His Histoire des Gaulois , which was widely acclaimed, was published in 1828 , which is why he received a professorship in history in Besançon from the royalist-minded Prime Minister Martignac . However, he was viewed by the government of Charles X for too liberal and therefore prohibited from holding further lectures. However, this fact gave him the important post of prefect of the Haute-Saône department after the July Revolution of 1830 under King Louis-Philippe , which he held for eight years. From 1838 he held the post of Maître des requêtes in the Council of State for the last ten years of the July monarchy and kept this post after the February Revolution of 1848 and under that of Napoleon III. founded the Second Empire , until January 18, 1860, by an imperial decree, he was appointed senator . As such, he supported the government of Napoleon III through his votes.

Thierry became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1841 and received an honorary doctorate in civil law from Oxford University in 1862 . On August 14, 1868, he was appointed Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor . Except during his prefecture of Haute-Saône, he was always literary and a permanent contributor to the Revue des Deux Mondes , with his articles mostly related to the area of ​​Roman Gaul . He died in Paris in 1873 at the age of 75. His son Gilbert Augustin Thierry (1843–1915) was a novelist and poet.

Works

  • Résumé de l'histoire de la Guyenne , Paris 1825
  • Histoire des Gaulois, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à l'entière soumission de la Gaule à la domination romaine , 3 volumes, Paris 1828; 10th edition, 2 vol., 1881
  • Histoire de la Gaule sous l'administration romaine , 3 volumes, Paris 1840–47; 2nd edition 1871
  • Histoire d ' Attila et ses successeurs jusqu'à l'établissement des Hongrois en Europe , 2 volumes, Paris 1856; 6th edition 1876; German Leipzig 1874
  • Récits (and Nouveaux récits ) de l'histoire romaine au cinquième siècle , 6 vols., Paris 1860–78:
    • Dernier temps de l'empire d'occident , Paris 1860
    • Alaric , Paris 1864
    • Trois ministres des fils de Théodose: Rufin, Eutrope, Stilicon , Paris 1865
    • Saint Jérôme , la société chrétienne à Rome et l'émigration romaine en Terre-Sainte , 2 volumes, Paris 1867
    • Saint Jean Chrysostome et l'impératrice Eudoxie; la société chrétienne en Orient , Paris 1872; 2nd edition 1874
    • Nestorius et Eutychès Paris, 1878
  • Tableau de l'Empire romaine, depuis la fondation de Rome jusqu'à la fin du gouvernement impérial en Occident , Paris 1862; 5th edition 1871

literature

personal data
SURNAME Thierry, Amédée
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thierry, Amédée Simon Dominique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Blois
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1873
Place of death Paris