Jean-Jacques Ampère
Jean-Jacques Ampère (born August 12, 1800 in Lyon , † March 27, 1864 in Pau ) (on the tombstone: Jean-Jacques Antoine Ampère ) was a French historian, philologist and writer.
Life
Ampère, son of the scientist André-Marie Ampère , began his literary career with a few tragedies. In 1826 he traveled to Germany and was a guest of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , who was impressed by Ampère's work. He made further trips to Norway, Sweden and Egypt. In 1830 Ampère was appointed professor at the Sorbonne .
At the Collège de France , where he had held a chair since 1833, Ampère conducted research for his main philological works Histoire littéraire de la France avant le XIIe siècle (1839/40) and Histoire de la littérature au moyen âge. De la formation de la langue française (1841). He has written for various magazines, including the Revue française and the Globe , theater reviews and articles on the history of literature, the history of French language and the history of literature.
He also participated in the project of a collection of folk tales, which would also take place in areas newly appropriated by France and which was to be extended to Québec . Based on the reports of Alexis de Tocqueville , he hoped to find the old French narrative preserved in its original state among isolated North American settlers. His Recueil général des poésies populaires was never completed. In 1876 the handwritten records were handed over to the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
In 1842 he was accepted into the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and on April 22, 1847 elected to the Académie française as successor to Alexandre Guiraud . In 1859 he was elected a member of the Accademia della Crusca . Together with Prosper Mérimée , he traveled to the Middle East , Greece and Italy . Other destinations in Ampères in 1851 were the United States and Mexico . In the social circles of Paris he belonged to the salon circle around the much older Julie Récamier , with whom he had a long correspondence.
On the common gravestone at the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris, his father André-Marie Ampère is immortalized on the left and he is immortalized on the right as Jean-Jacques Antoine Ampère . His grandfather was also named Jean-Jacques Ampère.
Works
- De l'histoire de la poésie (1830)
- De la littérature française dans ses rapports avec les littératures étrangères au moyen age (1833)
- Littérature et voyages: Allemagne et Scandinavie (1833)
- Histoire littéraire de la France avant le XIIe siècle (3 volumes, 1839)
- Histoire de la littérature au moyen age. De la formation de la langue française (3 volumes, 1841)
- Ballanche (1849)
- La Grèce, Rome et Dante: études littéraires d'après nature (1848)
- Littérature, voyages et poésies (2 volumes, 1848)
- Proménade en Amérique: États-Unis, Cuba et Mexique (1854)
- L'histoire romaine à Rome (4 volumes, 1856)
- César, scènes historiques (1859)
- Promenade en Amérique (2 volumes, 1860)
- La science et les lettres en Orient (1865)
- Mélanges d'histoire et de littérature (2 volumes, 1867)
- L'Empire romain à Rome (2 volumes, 1867)
- Voyage en Égypte et en Nubie (1868)
- Christian ou l'année romaine (1887)
- Jean-Jacques Ampère, Voyage dantesque / Viaggio dantesco [1839], edizione con testo a fronte, introduzione, nota al testo e testo critico a cura di Massimo Colella, Firenze, Società Dantesca Italiana - Polistampa (“Il viaggio di Dante”, 1 ), 2018, pp. 264.
Web links
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Anne-Marie Thiesse: La création des identités nationales - Europe XVIIIe – XXe siècle . In: Richard Figuier (Ed.): Points Histoire . 2nd Edition. H296. Éditions du Seuil, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-02-041406-6 , pp. 170-174 .
- ^ Entry in the list of members of the Crusca
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ampère, Jean-Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian, philologist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1864 |
| Place of death | Pau |