Henry Cochin

Henry Denys Benoît Marie Cochin (born January 31, 1854 in Paris , † December 9, 1926 ibid) was a French politician , Romanist , Italianist and translator .

Henry Cochin

life and work

Cochin came from a wealthy Parisian intellectual family. He completed a law degree, but also studied with Pierre de Nolhac and Émile Théodore Léon Gautier and spent his life doing research as a private scholar on Italian Renaissance literature , especially on Petrarch . As a citizen of Saint-Pierre-Brouck ( Département Nord ), where his wife lived, he became mayor there in 1889 and was a member of the Dunkirk- Land constituency from 1893 to 1914 . In 1926, shortly before his death, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .

(Ed. And translator) Luigi da Porto , Giulietta et Romeo. Nouvelle . Paris 1879
Boccace. Etudes Italiennes . Paris 1890 (Italian: Florence 1901)
(Ed.) Un ami de Pétrarque. Lettres de Francesco Nelli à Pétrarque . Paris 1892 (Italian Florence 1901)
La chronologie du «Canzoniere» de Pétrarque , Paris 1898
Le Frère de Pétrarque et le livre du «Repos des religieux» . Paris 1903, Geneva 1975
(Translator) Dante Alighieri, Vita nova . Paris 1905, 1914, 1921, 1950
Le bienheureux Fra Giovanni Angelico de Fiesole (1387-1455) . Paris 1906
Bibliografia degli scritti di Francesco Novati . Milan 1908
Jubilés d'Italie . Paris 1911
(Translator) Petrarca, Les Triomphes . Paris 1923
(Ed. And translator) Petrarca, Les Psaumes pénitentiaux . Paris 1929 (preface by Pierre de Nolhac )

Le Manuscrit de Monsieur C.-A.-L. Larsonnier . Paris 1881 (Charles Antoine Ludovic Larsonnier)
(Ed., With Henry Duparc) Expulsions des congrégations religieuses. Récits et témoignages . Paris 1881
(Ed.) Augustin Cochin (1823–1872, father), Les espérances chrétiennes . Paris 1883, 1912, 1920
Tableaux flamands . Paris 1908
Lamartine et la Flandre . Paris 1912
(with Nicolas Bourgeois and André Mabille de Poncheville) Le Nord dévasté . Paris 1920
Augustin Cochin 1823-1872. Ses lettres et sa vie . 2 volumes. Paris 1926

Henry Cochin: Les Deux guerres, 1870-1871, 1914-1917. Images et souvenirs . Paris 1917
En souvenir de Henry Cochin . Paris 1928 (foreword by Paul Hazard )
Pierre de Nolhac: Les Travaux d'Henry Cochin sur Pétrarque . In: Atti del Convegno petrarchesco (Atti e Memorie della R. Accademia Petrarca di scienze, lettere ed arti. New part 7, 1928)
Léon-Honoré Labande: Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Henry Cochin (1854-1926) . In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , 72, 4, 1928, pp. 436–454 (with picture), accessed January 3, 2016

Literature by and about Henry Cochin in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Information on Henry Cochin in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

personal data
SURNAME	Cochin, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cochin, Henry Denys Benoît Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French politician, member of the National Assembly, Romanist, Italianist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	January 31, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 1926
Place of death	Paris