Gabriel Maugain

Gabriel Maugain (born September 10, 1872 in Pointe-à-Pitre , Guadeloupe , † 1950 ) was a French Romanist , Italianist and comparativeist .

life and work

Gabriel Joseph Maugain passed the Agrégation de grammaire in 1899 , received a scholarship from the Institut Français in Florence in 1908 and completed his habilitation in 1909 with the two Thèses Étude sur l'évolution intellectuelle de l'Italie de 1657 à 1750 environ (Paris 1909) and Documenti bibliografici e critici per la storia della fortuna del Fénelon in Italia (Paris 1910). He first taught at the University of Grenoble , from 1919 as a professor of Italian at the University of Strasbourg .

Maugain was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty from 1927 to 1945 and as such had to organize the exodus of the university to Clermont-Ferrand at the end of 1939 (as part of the evacuation of the city ordered by the military) . In Clermont, the faculty refused to comply with the Nazis' invitation to return in 1940 and 1941 and suffered reprisals on November 25, 1943, with the murder and deportation of numerous members of the professors and students (a process which, except for the Special campaign Krakow , has no equal).

Other works

• L'Italie dans quelques publications de jésuites français , Paris 1910
• Boileau et l'Italie , Paris 1912
• Giosue Carducci et la France , Paris 1914
• L'Opinion italienne et l'intervention de l'Italie dans la guerre actuelle , Paris 1916
• Ronsard en Italie , Paris 1926
• Moeurs italiennes de la Renaissance. La Vengeance , Paris 1935
• (Ed.) Machiavelli, Le Prince. Les Discours. L'Art de la guerre. L'Histoire de Florence. Extraits , Clermont 1941

literature

• Ernest Hoepffner , "Gabriel Maugain (1872-1950)", in: Bulletin de la Faculté des Lettres de Strasbourg 28, 1950, pp. 187-189

Web links

• Literature by and about Gabriel Maugain in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
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• Brief history of Italian studies in Strasbourg , French