François-Georges Dreyfus

François-Georges Dreyfus (born September 23, 1928 in Paris , France , † September 24, 2011 in Paris) was a French historian , author and university professor .

Life

Dreyfus comes from an Alsatian family of Jewish faith. After the Second World War he converted to the Lutheran faith and studied first at the Paris Sorbonne and then at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1953 he married and taught at the Strasbourg Lycée Foustel de Coulanges until 1958 . In the following three years at the Center d'études germaniques of the CNRS he specialized in the history of the 20th century and political science . From 1965 to 1985 he was director of the CNRS at the Center for German Studies and from 1969 to 1980 also director of the Institut d'études politiques (IEP) at the Université de Strasbourg . From 1980 until his retirement in 1992 he taught at the University of Paris IV- Sorbonne.

Conviction for plagiarism

In 1992 Dreyfus was convicted of proven plagiarism of passages from a work by the historian Pascal Ory . As a result, other historians proved him to be further plagiarism. The science publisher Presses universitaires de France then terminated all relationships with the historian.

further activities

Since 1947 Dreyfus was a member and functionary of various Gaullist political parties. In 1967 he became an alderman of the Strasbourg magistrate for cultural affairs. He wrote regularly for La Nouvelle Revue d'histoire by Dominique Venner and worked on the editorial board of the traditionally set Catholic magazine La Nef . From 1995 until his death he presented the Libre Journal on Radio Courtoisie .

After Dreyfus converted in the 1950s, he later became presbyter of the Lutheran parish of Les Billettes in the 4th arrondissement in Paris.

honors and awards

• Officer of the Legion of Honor
• Chevalier des Ordre national du Mérite
• Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown
• Commander of the Palmes académiques
• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , 1st class
• 1975: Prix Marie-Eugène Simon-Henri-Martin of the Académie française for his work Histoire des gauches en France
• 2002: Prix Jen Sainteny of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques for his work 1919–1939: L'Engrenage

Works

• 1966: Les forces religieuses dans la société française . Paris.
• 1970: Histoire des Allemagnes . Paris.
• 1975: Histoire des Gauches en France. Paris.
• 1980: La vie politique en Alsace, 1919-1936 . Editions A. Colin, Paris 1980.
• 1982: De Gaulle et le Gaullissme: essai d'interprétation , Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, ISBN 2-13-037377-1 .
• 1984: as editor: Réformisme et révisionisme dans les socialismes allemand, austria et francais . Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, ISBN 2-7351-0053-7 .
• 1985: Des Évèques contre le Pape , Paris.
• 1987: Les Allemands entre l'Est et l'Ouest , Éditions Albatros, Paris.
• 1988: Histoire de la démocratie chrétienne en France: de Chateaubriand à Raymond Barre . Editions Alain Michel, Paris.
• 1990: Histoire de Vichy , Éditions de Fallois, Paris (new edition: 2004)
• 1991: L'Allemagne contemporaine: 1815-1990 . Presses Universitaires de France, Paris.
• 1998: Le IIIe Reich . Éditions LGF-Librairie de poche, Paris.
• 2002: 1919-1939: L'Engrenage. Editions de Fallois, Paris.

items

• Anti-Semitism in the Third French Republic . In: Bernd Martin , Ernst Schulin : The Jews as a minority in history. dtv history, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-423-01745-7 .