Auguste Burdeau

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Auguste Laurent Burdeau

Auguste Laurent Burdeau (born September 10, 1851 in Lyon , † December 12, 1894 in Paris ) was a French writer and statesman of the Third Republic . From July 1892 to January 1893 he served as Minister of the Navy, from December 1893 to May 1894 as Minister of Finance and from July 1894 to his death in December 1894 as President of the Chamber of Deputies .

Life

Auguste Laurent Burdeau was the son of a worker from Lyon, was orphaned at the age of ten and therefore had to earn his own living from an early age. With a scholarship he was able to receive training at the high school in Lyon and at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Then in 1870 he studied at the École normal supérieure in Paris, but in the same year he took part in the Franco-German War as a volunteer and took part in Bourbaki's campaign against Belfort . He was wounded and taken to Germany as a prisoner.

After the war, Burdeau was made Knight of the Legion of Honor at the age of twenty , teacher of philosophy in St. Étienne and later at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. In November 1881, the then Minister of Education Paul Bert appointed him his head of cabinet. In October 1885 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a Republican candidate in the Rhône department , where he stood by the radicals, excelled in financial matters and was one of the most outstanding speakers. In 1890 he was the representative of France at the workers' question conference in Berlin . In the cabinet of Émile Loubet he took over on July 12, 1892 in place of the resigned Godefroy Cavaignac the Ministry of Navy and Colonies and kept it under the Prime Minister of Alexandre Ribot , but resigned on January 11, 1893 when the cabinet was reorganized. On December 3, 1893, he joined the cabinet of Jean Casimir-Periers as finance minister , with whom he resigned on May 30, 1894, whereupon he was elected Vice-President and on July 5, 1894, President of the Chamber of Deputies . However, he died, exhausted from overwork, just five months later on December 12, 1894 at the age of 43 in Paris and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

Burdeau translated the essays by Herbert Spencer (3 volumes, 1877-83), Arthur Schopenhauer's Grundprobleme der Ethik (4th edition 1891) and The World as Will and Idea (2 volumes, 1888) into French and wrote, apart from numerous essays, in the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Revue philosophique , u. a. the following works:

  • Notions élémentaires d'économie politique , 1883
  • L'instruction morale á l'école , 1883
  • Le droit usuel et l'économie politique à l'école , 1884
  • Les questions sociales et contemporaines , 1886
  • Devoir et patrie, notions de morale et d'éducation civique , 1887
  • Une famille republicaine. Les Carnot , anonymous, 1888
  • L'Algérie en 1891 , 1892
  • Devoir et patrie , 1893

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personal data
SURNAME Burdeau, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burdeau, Auguste Laurent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1894
Place of death Paris