Ernest Lavisse

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Ernest Lavisse

Ernest Lavisse (born December 17, 1842 in Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache , Département Aisne , Picardie , † August 18, 1922 in Paris ) was a French historian who became a member of the Académie française in 1892 and wrote extensive works on the history of France and Germany composed.

Life

After attending school, Lavisse completed a degree and later took on a professorship in history at the University of Toulouse and at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Paris .

On June 2, 1892 he was elected a member of the Académie française , where he took the sixth armchair (armchair 6) as the successor to Edmond Jurien de La Gravière . In his election, he was able to prevail against Ferdinand Brunetière and Émile Zola . He himself had withdrawn his candidacy for admission to the Académie française against the politician Charles de Freycinet two years earlier .

Together with the historian and temporary minister for public education Alfred Nicolas Rambaud , he published Histoire générale du IVe siècle à nos jours from 1893 to 1900 , a twelve-volume history of France from the 4th century to the present. Lavisse, who had been editor of the Revue de Paris since 1894 , succeeded Georges Perrot as director of the École normal supérieure in Paris and headed it until he was replaced by Gustave Lanson in 1919. Lavisse was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor for his services . Since 1914 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and since 1916 of the British Academy .

In addition to numerous books on the history of France, such as the battle of Bouvines , Lavisse also wrote a number of works on the history of Germany, such as the year of the Three Emperor, in 1888, but also on historical figures such as Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully and, in particular, a representation of Frederick's youth, translated into German Great . His work shaped the thinking of the politician Émile Driant , among other things .

There was a scandal in 1923 when, after his death, his successor for Fauteuil 6, the playwright Georges de Porto-Riche , refused to write the prescribed eulogy for the respective predecessor and therefore, despite the election, never officially accepted into the Académie française has been.

The nationalist phrase coined by Lavise: “ Nos ancêtres les Gaulois ” (Our ancestors the Gauls) met with a wide reception.

Publications

  • Étude sur l'une des origines de la monarchie prussienne , 1875
  • De Hermanno Salzensi ordinis Teutonici magistro. De la Marche de Brandebourg sous la dynastie ascanienne , 1875
  • La Fondation de l'université de Berlin , 1876
  • Leçons préparatoires d'histoire de France , 1876
  • La première année d'histoire de France , 1876
  • Études sur l'histoire de la Prusse , 1879
  • Sully , 1880
  • Récits et entretiens familiers sur l'histoire de France , 1883
  • Questions d'enseignement national , 1885
  • Essais sur l'Allemagne impériale , 1887
  • Trois empereurs d'Allemagne: Guillaume 1er, Frédéric III, Guillaume II , 1888
  • La vie politique à l'étranger , 1889
  • La bataille de Bouvines , 1890
  • Études et étudiants , 1890
  • Vue générale de l'histoire politique de l'Europe , 1890
  • La jeunesse du grand Frédéric , 1890
  • On the subject of nos écoles , 1893
  • Le grand Frédéric avant l'avénement 1893
  • Histoire générale du IVe siècle à nos jours , co-editor Alfred Nicolas Rambaud, 12 volumes, 1893–1900
  • Histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'à la Révolution , co-editor, 18 volumes, 1903 to 1911 * Histoire de France contemporaine depuis la Révolution jusqu'à la paix de 1919 , co-editor, 10 volumes, 1920 to 1922
in German language

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Ernest Lavisse. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 27, 2015 .
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lavisse, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache , Aisne department , Picardy
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1922
Place of death Paris