Fortunat Strowski

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Fortunat Strowski (born May 16, 1866 in Carcassonne , Département Aude , † July 11, 1952 in Cervières, Département Loire ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Strowski was the son of a Polish officer who fled from Russia to France. He graduated from high school at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, studied at the École normal supérieure , passed the Agrégation de grammaire in 1888 and was a high school teacher in Albi (1888), Montauban (1891), Nîmes (1892) and at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux (1897). He completed his habilitation with the two theses Saint François de Sales. Introduction à l'histoire du sentiment religieux en France au dix-septième siècle (Paris 1898, 1908, 1928) and De Isocratis Paedagogia (Albiae 1897) and taught at the University of Bordeaux as Chargé de cours (1901), and from 1906 to 1911 as professor of French literary history. In 1911 he went to the Sorbonne and taught there as a charge de cours, as a maître de conférences (1913), as an associate professor (1921) and as a full professor (1930-1936). From 1923 he was visiting professor at Columbia University in New York . From 1938 to 1944 he taught at the newly founded Faculdade Nacional de Filosofia (FNFi) in Rio de Janeiro .

In 1926 Strowski became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Section Morale, Fauteuil 5). He was an officer in the Legion of Honor .

Other works

  • Bossuet et les extraits de ses œuvres diverses, Paris 1901
  • Montaigne, Paris 1906, 1931, New York 1971
  • (Ed. With François Gebelin and Pierre Villey ) Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne, publiés d'après l'exemplaire de Bordeaux, 5 vols., Bordeaux 1906-1933, Hildesheim / New York 1981
  • Pascal et son temps, 3 vols., Paris 1907-1908-1910, 1938 (Histoire du sentiment religieux en France au XVIIe siècle)
  • Montesquieu. Textes choisis et commentés, Paris 1912
  • Tableau de la littérature française au XIXe siècle, Paris 1912, 1924
  • La Flèche d'or. Récit de la première invasion des Baltes en France, Paris 1917
  • La Renaissance littéraire de la France contemporaine, Paris 1922, 1929
  • Histoire des lettres. 2. De Ronsard à nos jours, Paris 1923 (Histoire de la nation française, edited by Jean Brunhes and Gabriel Hanoteaux, vol. 13)
  • La sagesse française. Montaigne. Saint François de Sales. Descartes. La Rochefoucauld. Pascal, Paris 1925 (German: From the essence of the French spirit, Munich / Berlin 1937)
  • (Ed.) Œuvres complètes de Blaise Pascal, 3 vol., 1926-1931
  • La Bruyère en America. Les Caractères, ou les Moeurs de ce siècle, Paris 1929
  • Les Pensées de Pascal. Etude et analyze, Paris 1930, 1965
  • L'homme modern, Paris 1931
  • La Grande ville au bord du fleuve (Bordeaux et la Guyenne), Paris 1932
  • La Pléiade. La doctrine et l'oeuvre poétique, Paris 1933, 1991
  • Nationalisme ou patriotisme, Paris 1933
  • Le Théâtre et nous, Paris 1934
  • La pensée de la mort et la philosophie de la vie dans Bossuet, Paris 1935, 2003
  • Les historiens français au XIX e siècle d'Augustin Thierry à Michelet, Paris 1935, 2003
  • Montaigne. Sa vie publique et privée, Paris 1938
  • France endormie 1920-1940, Rio de Janeiro / Paris 1941
  • Les libérateurs, Rio de Janeiro 1943
  • Le Théâtre modern et le Brésil, Rio de Janeiro 1945 (Turkish: Istanbul 1946)
  • (Ed.) Fables de La Fontaine, Tours 1950

literature

  • Maurice Levaillant, Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Fortunat Strowski, Institut de France, Académie des sciences morales et politiques, Paris 1954
  • Qui était qui. XXe siècle, Levallois-Perret 2005 sv

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personal data
SURNAME Strowski, Fortunat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strowski de Robkowa, Joseph-Fortunat; Strowski de Robkowa, Fortunat Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Carcassonne
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1952
Place of death Cervières, Loire department