Charles Dezobry

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Charles Louis Dezobry (born March 4, 1798 in Saint-Denis , Département Seine-Saint-Denis , † August 16, 1871 ) was a French historian , writer and publisher .

Act

In 1835 his first book, Rome au siècle d'Auguste, ou Voyage d'un Gaulois à Rome à l'époque du règne d'Auguste , was published by L. Hachette in Paris . A prose fictional description of a Gaul in the age of Augustus on his journey to Rome. Dezobry adheres to a template, the Voyage d ' Anacharsis by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy . Two years later he published Exercices de mémoire et de lecture together with Augustin Thierry . A book that includes memory and reading exercises.

In 1839 he founded the Dezobry, E Magdeleine et cie publishing house with a partner . and opened his bookstore. Books appear later with the publisher's name Dezobry, F. Tandou et cie. He published exclusively scientific works, among others by Jean-Joseph-François Poujoulat , Aimé Girard , Paul Desains and Émile Egger .

His main scientific work, Dictionnaire général de biographie et d'histoire, de mythologie, de géographie ancien , which he wrote with Théodore Bachelet , he did not publish himself, but was edited by Charles Delagrave . It includes personalities such as Philip of Savoy , Gui des Ursins , Michel Delaporte , Dominique Della-Maria and many more.

The only surviving portrait of Dezobry was painted by Joseph-Désiré Court . It hangs in the Louvre in Paris.

Works (selection)

as an author
  • L'histoire en peinture, ou épisodes historiques propres à être traduits en tableaux. Histoire romaine. Tableaux d'histoire passages historiques, tableaux de genre . 1848.
  • La mauvaise récolte, ou les suites de l'ignorance . 1848.
  • Rome au siècle d'Auguste ou voyage d'un Gaulois à Rome à l'époque de règne d'Auguste et pendant une partie du règne de Tibre . 1835.
  • Traité élémentaire de versificatlon française . 1866.
  • Usage et de l'utilité des éditions classiques . 1856.
  • Dictionnaire de biography et d'histoire . 9th edition. 1883 (together with Théodore Bachelet)
as editor
  • Dictionnaire général des lettres, des beaux-arts et des sciences morales et politiques . 4th edition. 1875 (together with Théodore Bachelet).
  • Dictionnaire pratique et critique de l'art épistolaire français . 1865.

Web links

literature

  • Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition from 1888 to 1890

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ catalog général digitalisat , accessed on July 22, 2016
  2. ↑ catalog général digitalisat , accessed on July 22, 2016
  3. ↑ J.-B. Tissandier: Esprit de la poésie et des beaux-arts: ou, Théorie du beau , digitized version , accessed on July 25, 2016
  4. ↑ openlibrary Dezobry, E. Magdeleine et cie.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 22, 2016@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / openlibrary.org  
  5. ^ Dictionnaire général de biographie et d'histoire digitalisat , accessed on July 26, 2016
  6. ↑ portrait of Charles Dezobrys at culture.fr , accessed on 21 July 2016
personal data
SURNAME Dezobry, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dezobry, Charles Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Denis , France
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1871