Eugène Rambert

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Eugène Rambert

Eugène Rambert (born April 6, 1830 in Sâles, today part of Montreux ; † November 21, 1886 in Lausanne ) was a Swiss writer , poet , literary critic and naturalist .

Life

Eugène Rambert was born on April 6, 1830 in Sâles, which today belongs to the Clarens district of the city of Montreux in the canton of Vaud . In 1853 Rambert received his licentiate in theology from the Faculty of the Free Church of the Canton of Vaud in Lausanne and then moved to Paris to study French literature. From 1855 to 1860 he was professor of French literature at the Académie de Lausanne , then until 1881 at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum Zürich and then again in Lausanne until 1886. In 1879 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel .

He wrote short stories and literary criticism for the magazines Revue Suisse , Bibliothèque universelle , Gazette vaudoise , Pairie , Nouvelliste vaudois , Gazette de Lausanne and Revue des Deux Mondes . He wrote “almost monthly” volumes of prose and poetry , literary articles, theological essays and novel-like short stories as well as essays on alpine flora and travel guides . He also published the biographies of Alexandre Vinet (1875), Juste Olivier (1879) and Alexandre Calame (1884).

Cabane Rambert with the Muveran massif

In 1863 Rambert was a founding member and later President of the Central President of the SAC Section Diablerets. The Cabane Rambert is named after him. By 1875 Rambert published a five-volume description of the Swiss Alps and in 1885 a book on the local bird world.

Eugène Rambert died on November 21, 1886 in Lausanne . 1898 founded Swiss Zofinger association with the Prix Rambert 's oldest literary award of Romandie , which is awarded by a jury of French-speaking Swiss authors since 1903 every three years. His estate was bequeathed to the Swiss National Library in 1984 and added to the newly founded Swiss Literary Archives in 1991.

reception

The Historical Lexicon of Switzerland describes Rambert as a typical intellectual of his time, anchored in French-speaking Swiss culture, who acted in various fields of knowledge and saw himself as a bridge builder between the different parts of the country. Albert Chérel describes him as a “classic” (un classique) , whose work is “very representative of the Swiss spirit” (très représentative de l'esprit suisse) .

Works (excerpt)

  • Corneille, Racine and Molière. Deux cours sur la poésie dramatique française au XVIIe siècle. 1861.
  • Alexandre Vinet, d'après ses poésies. 1868.
  • Poésies et chansons d'enfants. Les quatre seasons. 1871.
  • Bex et ses environs. Guide et souvenir. 1871.
  • From the Swiss mountains: country and people. H. Georg, Geneva 1874, OCLC 886360246 (excerpt from the five-volume work Les Alpes suisses , 1866–1875).
  • Alexandre Vinet. Histoire de sa vie et de ses œuvres. 1875.
  • Ecrivains nationaux. 1874.
  • Our birds. Avanti Club, Neuchâtel 1956, OCLC 608622690 (fr: Les oiseaux dans la nature: description pittoresque des oiseaux utiles , 1885).
  • Alexandre Calame, sa vie et son œuvre d'après les sources originales. Fischbacher, 1884.
  • Dernières Poésies. 1887.
  • Les fleurs de deuil. 1895.
  • The marmot with the collar (fr: La Marmotte au collier ). Origo-Verlag, Zurich 1952, 6th edition Bern 1984, ISBN 978-3-282000-57-9 .
  • The goatherd of Praz-de-Fort (fr: Le chevrier de Praz-de-Fort ). GS-Verlag, Bern 1980, ISBN 3-7185-3026-0 .

literature

  • Virgile Rossel : Eugène Rambert, sa vie, son temps, son œuvre. Payot, Lausanne 1917.

Web links

Commons : Eugène Rambert  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Auteur: Eugène Rambert  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Daniel Maggetti: Eugène Rambert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 22, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ Eugène Rambert: une biography . Prix ​​Rambert website , accessed June 20, 2019.
  3. ^ A b Albert Chérel : Book review on: Virgile Rossel : Eugène Rambert, sa vie, son temps, son œuvre. In: Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France . Volume 26, No. 4, 1919, pp. 629-631, JSTOR 40518217 .
  4. ↑ Juste Olivier: Œuvres choisies. Lausanne 1879. Eugène Rambert published these collected works posthumously and wrote a biography of Olivier.
  5. ↑ ALS Rambert Rambert, Eugène: Fonds Eugène Rambert, 1830-1886 (inventory) , accessed on June 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Rambert, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Sâles, today Montreux , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1886
Place of death Lausanne , Switzerland