Edmond Bapst

Constant Valentin Edmond Bapst (born January 7, 1858 in Paris ; † October 28, 1934 there ) was a French diplomat and historian.

Life

Edmond Bapst was the son of Paul Alfred Bapst (* 1823; † 1879), a Parisian court jeweler, and Augustine Philiberte Frémyn (* 1829; † 1877). He studied law , philology , paleography and history at the renowned École nationale des chartes .

On June 25, 1882, he joined the Foreign Service as an attaché in the public relations department . On October 14, 1882 he was transferred to London and employed in Cairo from October 1886 to April 1887 . On December 20, 1887 he was promoted to the embassy secretary at the embassy in Saint Petersburg , and on July 6, 1890, he was transferred to the embassy in Vienna . As a representative in Luxembourg , he was promoted to second-class legation secretary on December 12, 1890. On July 6, 1891, he was again transferred to Cairo and on November 3, 1892 to Saint Petersburg. On June 17, 1896, he was promoted to first-class legation secretary. He served in this post in Saint Petersburg when he was inducted into the Legion of Honor on February 8, 1897 . On December 30, 1905, he was appointed Ministre plénipotentiaire in Beijing , where he was accredited from 1906 to 1909. From 1909 to 1911 he was director of political affairs in the French Foreign Ministry, but was dismissed in 1911 because of a conflict with his minister, but from 1913 to 1918 he was again appointed as envoy in Copenhagen , an important post during World War I (in "neutral" country), and was envoy in Tokyo from April 1919 to the end of 1920 .

In the course of his diplomatic career, Edmond Bapst published studies on historical as well as contemporary topics of French foreign policy. As an emeritus “Ambassadeur de France” from 1821 - he had acquired Reichenberg Castle above Bergheim (Alsace) , which had been restored at the end of the 19th century, as a summer residence in 1922 - his work concentrated on Alsatian and Rhineland topics, including the “Kaspar Hauser problem” “In neighboring Baden.

Works

A selection:

• Les mariages de Jacques V. , Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie., 1889
• Deux gentils-hommes poètes de la cour de Henri VIII. , Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie., 1891
• L'empereur Nicolas Ier et la deuxième République française , Paris: De Lahure, 1889
• The origines of the guerre de Crimée. La France et la Russie de 1848 à 1854 , Paris: C. Delagrave, 1912
• Le siège de Metz en 1870, d'après les notes laissées par Germain Bapst , Paris: De Lahure, 1926
• Un château de l'Alsace: Le Reichenberg , Paris: De Lahure, 1928
• Les sorcières de Bergheim: Episode de l'histoire d'Alsace , Paris: De Lahure, 1929
• A la conquête du trône de Bade. La Comtesse de Hochberg. La Grande Duchesse Stéphanie. Gaspar Hauser , Paris: De Lahure, 1930

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Appointment notice on joining the École des chartes, November 24, 1875, p.511 [1] However, he seems to be his akad. Graduation as lic.iur. & phil. not as a chartist, but at a regular university - as early as 1876 he was not included in the doctoral list for the second year of study.
2. ^ Archives of the Chancellery of the Légion d'Honneur, there career only displayed until 1897. Recorded first as "Chevalier", later "Officier", then "Commandeur", in: [2]
3. ↑ Patrick Taveirne, Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors : A History of Scheut in Ordos, p. 576
4. ↑ Jean-Marie Thiébaud, La présence française au Japon: du XVIe siècle à nos jours, 2008, p. 175
5. ↑ From about 20 titles in the catalog of the French National Library: [3]

predecessor	Office	successor
Georges Dubail	French ambassador to China 1906–1909	Pierre de Margerie
Charles Prosper Maurice comte Horric de Beaucaire	French ambassador to Denmark 1913–1918	Alexandre Robert Conty
Roger Maugras	French ambassador to Japan 1919–1921	Paul Claudel