Jacques Droz

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Jacques Droz (March 12, 1909 in Paris , † March 3, 1998 in Paris) was a French historian .

Life

Droz passed his Agrégation in 1932 and became a teacher at the high school in Colmar . He was drafted in 1939 and taken prisoner of war . He was able to flee and then taught at various high schools in the Paris region.

In 1945 Droz received his doctorate for his research on the influence of the French Revolution on Rhenish liberalism between the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the March Revolution in 1848. In the same year he became a professor at the Fustel de Coulanges high school in Strasbourg . From 1947 to 1962 he was a professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand , from 1957 he was also dean of the local humanities faculty. Droz then succeeded Maurice Baumont as professor at the Sorbonnewhere he retired in 1972. Many of his works have been translated into German and English, especially the series History of Socialism edited by Droz , some also into other languages.

Droz was an expert on the history of political ideas, especially socialism and liberalism . He was also a specialist in the history of German-speaking countries. The historical journal praised Droz's history of social democracy in 1968:

"The present work is unrivaled insofar as there is no such general and reliable presentation of the main facts in any country that reliably takes into account all research results up to around 1960."

- Hermann Meyer

Since 1974 he has been a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Le libéralisme rhénan de 1815 à 1848 . Sorlot, Paris 1940.
  • Histoire diplomatique de 1648 à 1919 . Dalloz, Paris 1952.
  • Le Socialisme Démocratique, 1864-1960 . Armand Colin, Paris 1966.
  • Les Causes de la Première Guerre mondiale. Essai d'historiographie . Du Seuil, 1973.
  • Histoire de l'antifascisme en Europe 1923-1939 . La Découverte, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-707-13445-7 (new edition 2001).

literature

  • Jacques Bariéty : Nekrolog Jacques Droz 1909-1998. In: Historische Zeitschrift 267, 1998, pp. 827-829.
  • Ulrich Pfeil : Jacques Droz and the historical images of German history , in: Michel Grunewald u. a. (Ed.), France-Allemagne au XXe siècle - La production de savoir sur l'autre , Vol. 2, Bern, Peter Lang, 2012, pp. 231–246.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jacques Bariéty: Droz Jacques (1909–1998) . In: universalis.fr , accessed March 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Hermann Meyer: Review of Jacques Droz, Le Socialisme Démocratique, 1864-1960. Paris, Armand Colin 1966 . In: Historische Zeitschrift 206, 1968, pp. 283f.
  3. ^ Members of the SAW: Jacques Droz. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on October 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Droz, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1998
Place of death Paris