Auguste Barchou de Penhoën
Auguste Théodore Hilaire Baron Barchou de Penhoën (born April 28, 1801 in Morlaix , Finistère , † July 28, 1855 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Yvelines ) was a French historian, author, translator, philosopher and politician.
Life
Barchou de Penhoën was a classmate of Honoré de Balzacs in an oratorian boarding school in Vendôme ; When the two boys were in the dungeon , they talked about philosophical questions. During the restoration period he served as an officer (with the rank of captain ) in the general staff ; In 1830 he participated in the expedition to Algiers. At the beginning of the July monarchy he resigned and from then on devoted himself to literature. He wrote for Revue des Deux Mondes , as well as philosophical texts and travelogues; He also translated works by German philosophers into French (Histoire de la philosophie allemande depuis Leibnitz jusqu'à Hegel) From 1849 to 1851 he was Député des Finistère for the faction of the monarchists. In 1850 he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .
Works (selection)
Books
- Guillaume d'Orange et Louis-Philippe, 1688–1830, par le Bon Barchou de Penhoën (1835)
- Destination de l'homme, de Fichte . Paris Charpentier 1836
- Histoire de la philosophie allemande depuis Leibnitz jusqu'à Hegel, Volume 1–2 . Paris: Charpentier 1836
- Mémoires d'un officier d'État-major: Expédition d 'Afrique (1835)
- Histoire de la conquête et de la fondation de l'empire anglais dans l'Inde (1841)
- Un Mot sur la situation politique par M. Barchou de Penhoën. Aux électeurs du Finistère (1849)
- L'Inde sous la domination anglaise, tome 1 (1850)
Article in the Revue des Deux Mondes
- Schelling - Philosophy de la nature (1833)
- Philosophy de Fichte (1832)
- Le Choléra, fragment philosophique
- Le Chevalier du Couëdie
- Souvenirs de l'expédition d'Afrique
- L'Histoire de l'humanité d'après M. Ballanche
- Histoire des lois par les mœurs
- The navigation in the Orient, in the Antiquité
literature
- Auguste Barchou de Penhoën , dans Robert et Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, 1889
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on Auguste Barchou de Penhoën in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- ^ André Maurois: Prometheus or the life of Balzac . Düsseldorf, Econ Verlag, 1966 p. 292.
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SURNAME | Barchou de Penhoën, Auguste |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barchou de Penhoën, Auguste Théodore Hilaire |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French officer, translator and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1801 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Morlaix |
DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1855 |
Place of death | Saint-Germain-en-Laye |