Charles Sarolea

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Charles Sarolea (born October 25, 1870 in Tongeren , † March 11, 1953 in Edinburgh ) was a Belgian-British romance scholar and publicist.

life and work

Charles Louis-Camille Sarolea studied in Liège, Paris, Palermo and Naples. In 1893 he received his doctorate with the work La liberté et le déterminisme dans leurs rapports avec la théorie de l'évolution.Thèse présentée à l'Université libre de Bruxelles pour l'obtention du doctorat spécial en philosophie (Brussels 1893) and was private secretary of Walthère Frère -Orban . In 1894 he went to the newly founded Institute for French at the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in French literature , where he was professor from 1918 to 1931. In 1912 he obtained British citizenship. From 1908 until his death he was the Belgian consul in Edinburgh. In 1903 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Sarolea published two series on French literature and history ( Gallia , Paris / London / New York 1904 ff; Collection Nelson. Chefs d'œuvres de la littérature , Paris / London / New York 1910–1958) and was a founding editor from 1912 to 1917 of the magazine Everyman (published again by Dent, 1929). He left a private library of more than 200,000 volumes.

Through his second wife, Sarolea was Ernest Shackleton's brother-in-law .

Works

Romance Studies

  • Essais de philosophie et de littérature , Edinburgh 1898
  • Essais de littérature et de politique , 2 vols., Brussels 1905–1906 (preface by Émile Faguet )
  • (Ed.) A nthologie des poètes lyriques français, Paris 1911, New York 1932
  • The French Renascance London 1916, Port Washington 1970 (French translation: Le réveil de la France , Paris 1916, bilingual edition)
  • The Maid of Orleans. The Story of Joan of Arc Told to American Soldiers , Paris 1918
  • Robert Louis Stevenson and France , Edinburgh 1924
  • Daylight on Spain. The Answer to the Duchess of Atholl , London 1937

Other works

  • Henrik Ibsen. Etude sur sa vie et son œuvre , Paris 1891
  • Cardinal Newman and his influence on religious life and thought , Edinburgh 1908
  • The Anglo-German Problem , London 1912, 1915 (French Paris 1915; Russian Moscow 1915)
  • Count LN Tolstoy. His life and work , London 1912
  • (Ed.) L'Héroïque Belgique. Album commémoratif , Paris 1914
  • How Belgium Saved Europe , London 1915
  • The Curse of the Hohenzollern , London 1915
  • Europe's Debt to Russia , London 1916 = Great Russia. Her Achievement and Promise , New York 1916
  • German problems and personalities , London 1917
  • The Russian revolution and the war , London 1917
  • Europe and the League of Nations , London 1919 (German: Around the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations. Reflections and Outlooks , Bonn 1920)
  • Letters on Polish Affairs , London 1922 (Spanish Madrid 1922)
  • Impressions of Soviet Russia , London 1924 (French: Ce que j'ai vu en Russie soviétique , Paris 1925; Hungarian 1925; Polish 1925; Chinese 1926; Japanese 1927)
  • The Policy of Sanctions and the Failure of the League of Nations , London 1936

literature

  • Samantha T. Johnson: A good European and a sincere racist. The life and work of Professor Charles Saroléa 1870–1953 . Dissertation, University of Keele 2001
  • Peter France: Sarolea, Charles Louis-Camille (1870-1953). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 2004, doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 66974

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sarolea, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saroléa, Charles; Sarolea, Charles Louis-Camille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-British Romance scholar and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Tongeren
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1953
Place of death Edinburgh