Jean-Baptiste Dureau de La Malle

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph-René Dureau de La Malle (also Jean-Baptiste Dureau de Lamalle ; born November 27, 1742 in Ouanaminthe , † September 19, 1807 in Mauves-sur-Huisne ) was a French writer, translator and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Dureau de La Malle grew up as the son of an officer in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti ) and studied in Paris. Since he was sufficiently wealthy, he could devote himself to his inclinations and open a literary salon in Paris . In 1802 he was a member of the Corps législatif (legislative body). In 1804 he was elected to the Académie française (seat no. He died two years later at the age of 64. His son Adolphe Dureau de La Malle (1777-1857) was from 1818 a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .

Dureau made a name for himself as a translator of Seneca ( De Beneficiis "About Beneficiaries "), Sallust , Titus Livius and especially of Tacitus . He also gave theoretical views on translation problems .

Works (as translator)

• Traité des Bienfaits de Sénèque, précédé d'un Discours sur la traduction . Pissot, Paris 1776.
• Tacite, nouvelle traduction . 3 vols. Paris 1790. 5 vols. Paris 1808 (several editions until 1888).
• Oeuvres de Salluste . Paris 1808, 1811.
• (with others) Histoire romaine de Tite-Live . 15 vols. Paris 1810-1812.

Web links

• Information on Jean-Baptiste Dureau de La Malle in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• Literature by and about Jean-Baptiste Dureau de La Malle in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Appreciation by his successor in the academy , French