Eugène Cavaignac

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Eugène Cavaignac (born August 19, 1876 in Le Havre ; died January 11, 1969 in Paris ) was a French historian . He was Professor of Ancient History in Strasbourg and, among other things, directed the publication of the Histoire du monde .

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Eugène Cavaignac was born on August 19, 1876 in Le Havre . He is the son of Godefroy Cavaignac (1853-1905), the politician and Minister of War under various governments of the French Republic , and the grandson of the politician and general Louis Eugène Cavaignac (1802-1857). Father Vidal de la Blache , whom he admired, was one of his old teachers . He was a member of the École française d'Athènes . In 1905 Eugène Cavaignac was appointed to the chair of Ancient History at the University of Strasbourg , where André Piganiol and Marc Bloch were his colleagues.

Right -wing nationalist , like his father, he was close to the right-wing extremist , nationalist and monarchist political group Action française in his youth . The Nouvelle Librairie nationale , one of its propaganda organs, published his Esquisse d'une histoire de France ("Draft of a History of France") in 1910 , for which he received the prize for history of the Institut d'Action française des Maurras, which was awarded for the first time that year - Follower Louis Dimier (1865–1943), and his novel Le Silène (1925), to which the writer Charles Maurras (1868–1952) personally wrote the foreword.

Together with the orientalist Louis Delaporte (1874-1944) he was one of the first French scholars interested in the Hittite language , which had recently been deciphered, and he helped found the revue hittite et asianique , which was published in 1930 . After Delaportes death he taught Hittite at the Institut Catholique de Paris until 1959 .

Eugène Cavaignac headed the publication of the Histoire générale de l'Antiquité (Paris: Boccard, 1913-1920) and the Histoire du monde (1922-1948), also at Éditions de Boccard.

He contributed various volumes to the Histoire du monde , a world history with the participation of various renowned scholars, and apparently rounded them off towards the end, when it was likely that it could not be continued as originally planned.

He died in Paris on January 11, 1969 .

Works

  • Études sur l'histoire financière d'Athènes au Ve. Le trésor d'Athènes de 480 à 404 , 1908.
  • Études sur l'histoire financière d'Athènes au Ve. Le trésor sacré d'Éleusis jusqu'en 404 , 1908.
  • Esquisse d'une histoire de France , Paris, Nouvelle librairie nationale, 1910.
  • Population et capital dans le monde méditerranéen antique , 1923.
  • Chronology à l'usage des candidats aux examens d'histoire , 1925.
  • Le Silène: roman , 1925.
  • Subbiluliuma et son temps , 1932.
  • Chronologie de l'histoire mondiale , Paris, Payot, 1934
  • Le probleme hittite , 1936.
  • Division , Paris, Fayard, 1948.
  • Les Hittites , 1950.
  • L'Économie grecque , 1951.
  • Étude synoptique des civilizations (other title: 5 000 ans d'histoire: tableau synoptique des civilizations ), Club français du livre, 1955.
  • Histoire du monde :
I. [Introduction to l'Histoire du monde: Plan général de l'ouvrage]. Prolégomènes. 1922. Digitized
II. Le monde méditerranéen jusqu'au IVe siècle avant J.-C. / The world of the Mediterranean up to the 4th century BC Chr. 1929 digitized
V. Le monde méditerranéen du IVe siècle avant J.-C. au Ve siècle après JC / The world of the Mediterranean from the 4th century BC Until the 5th century AD
5.1 La Paix Romaine . 1928 digitized
X. / XI. Introduction: Politique mondiale (1492–1757). 1934 digitized

See also

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Eugène Cavaignac  - Sources and full texts

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Who had put down the workers' uprising in Paris in bloody street fighting in June 1848 and was defeated as a presidential candidate by Louis Napoléon .
  2. ↑ cf. the dedication in the Histoire du monde .
  3. ↑ "Sous le parrainage et avec une préface de M. Charles Maurras" ( "under the auspices and with a foreword by Charles Maurras").
  4. ↑ body Société des Etudes et hittites asianiques .
  5. ↑ deboccard.com
personal data
SURNAME Cavaignac, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Havre
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1969
Place of death Paris