François-Auguste Mignet

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François-Auguste Mignet around 1865

François-Auguste Mignet (born May 8, 1796 in Aix-en-Provence , † March 24, 1884 in Paris ) was a French historian and lawyer. In 1830 he became a State Councilor and Director of the Archives in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but was relieved of this position in 1848.

Life

Mignet studied first in Avignon until 1815 and then for another three years at the University of Aix-Marseille . In 1821 he and his friend Adolphe Thiers , also a historian, moved to Paris, where he worked as a journalist. In 1824 his two-volume history of the French Revolution ( Histoire de la révolution française ) was published, a work that, together with Thiers' eponymous, continues to influence the reception of the revolution to this day. Beate Gödde-Baumanns writes:

“The 2-volume, reflective-analytical work by Mignet [...] and the 10-volume, predominantly narrative work by Thiers [...] made a decisive contribution to the emergence of the liberal revolutionary myth. What was new on the part of the supporters of the revolution was their so-called fatalistic interpretation, according to which the French Revolution cannot be split into an affirmative and a damnable part, but rather forms a whole, since its course was the inevitable consequence of the given circumstances. Both works [...] undoubtedly helped prepare the intellectual and political climate for the July Revolution of 1830. "

- Beate Gödde-Baumanns : In: Rüdiger vom Bruch , Rainer A. Müller (Ed.): Historikerlexikon. From antiquity to the present. Beck, Munich 2002, p. 333.

The Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith put the work on the index by decree of September 5, 1825 . In 1830, Mignet was at the July Revolution as a signatory to the petition against King Charles X involved. Under the “citizen king” Ludwig Philipp , who was installed after the revolution, he was director of the Archives au ministère des Affaires from 1830 to 1848 . From 1832 he took part 6 of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques , which was newly founded that year, and in 1836 was elevated to the position of secrétaire perpétuel (secretary for life) of this learned society. On December 29, 1836 he was elected to the Académie française , in 1876 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

Histoire de la Révolution française depuis 1789 jusqu'en 1814
  • De la féodalité des institutions de Louis IX. , Paris 1822
  • Histoire de la révolution française , ibid. 1824; Translated into German "according to the improved and increased newest or fifth original edition" by August Schäfer, Verlag Heinrich Hoff, Mannheim 1836
  • 10. A. ibid. 1840
  • Histoire de la ligue , Paris 1829, 5 vols.
  • Histoire de la reformation , Paris 1833
  • Notices et Mémoires historique , Paris 1843
  • Antonio Perez and Philippe II , Paris 1845
  • Notices historique sur la vie et les travaux de M. Rossi , Paris 1849
  • Histoire de Marie Stuart , Paris 1850, 2 vols.
  • La Rivalité de François Ier et de Charles-Quint , 1875

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mignet, François-Auguste-Alexis. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 618 (French, digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Mignet, François-Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Aix-en-Provence
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1884
Place of death Paris