Gabriel Monod
Gabriel Monod (born March 7, 1844 in Ingouville , Seine-Maritime department , † April 10, 1912 in Versailles ) was a French historian and medievalist .
Life
Monod was the nephew of Adolphe Monod and had Alsatian ancestors through his mother. He went to school in Le Havre and Paris and studied at the École normal supérieure with a degree in 1865 and then in Göttingen and Berlin with Georg Waitz . After his return in 1868 he taught history at the École pratique des hautes études . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, he and his cousins organized an ambulance that followed the course of the front. He later wrote memoirs about the war (Allemands et Français, 1871). He then taught again at the École pratique (until 1905) and also at the École Normale Supérieure (from 1880 to 1904). In 1901 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1907 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and since 1911 of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
He dealt with medieval history and published the chronicles of Gregory of Tours , Marius of Avenches and Fredegar here .
In 1875 he founded the Revue historique with Gustave Fagniez .
In 1873 he married Olga Herzen, the daughter of Alexander Herzen .
Fonts
- Translation (with commentary) by Wilhelm Junghans : Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech . F. Vieweg, Paris 1879
- Etudes critiques sur les sources de l'histoire Carolingienne . E. Bouillon, Paris 1898 (only the first volume appeared)
- Etudes critiques on the sources de l'histoire mérovingienne . A. Francke, Paris, 2 volumes, 1872, 1885 (Volume 1: Grégoire de Tours et Marius d'Avenche, Volume 2: La Compilation dite de Frédégaire)
- Bibliography de l'histoire de France. Catalog méthodique et chronologique des sources et des ouvrages relatifs à l'histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'en 1789 . Paris 1888, reprint Brussels: Culture et Civilization, 1968
- Les Maîtres de l'histoire: Ernest Renan , Hippolyte Taine , Jules Michelet . 1894
- Portraits et souvenirs (including Victor Hugo , Fustel de Coulanges , Victor Duruy ). 1897
- La vie et la pensée de Jules Michelet, 1798-1852 . 2 volumes. Champion, Paris 1923
literature
- Monod, Gabriel . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 18 : Medal - Mumps . London 1911, p. 730 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Monod, Gabriel . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 171.
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Gabriel-Jacques-Jean Monod. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, accessed on October 7, 2015 .
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Gabriel-Jacques-Jean Monod. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 7, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monod, Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian and medievalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ingouville , Seine-Maritime department |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1912 |
| Place of death | Versailles |