Jean-Joseph Rive

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Jean-Joseph Rive

Jean-Joseph Rive , also Abbé Rive, (born January 19, 1730 in Apt , † October 20, 1791 in Marseille ) was a French author and librarian .

Live and act

He was the son of a goldsmith , orfèvre . First he taught as a teacher at the collège Saint-Charles d'Avignon and then worked as an abbé in Mollégès of the (Diocese of Arles).

In 1767 he moved to Paris to work the following year as the librarian of Louis-César de La Baume Le Blanc de La Vallière (1708-1780). Abbé Rive remained in this function until the Duke's death in 1780, who bequeathed him 6,000 livres .

He was tried as the librarian of Cardinal Jean-de-Dieu-Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucé (1732-1804) to the Bibliothèque Méjanes of Aix-en-Provence , but his claims were set too high and the outbreak of the French Revolution set but ultimately an end to this project.

His sharp criticism and the ability not to evade upcoming conflicts masked his achievements as a book researcher. Against the work System der Natur (1770) by D'Holbach he wrote a counter-writ, the Lettres philosophiques contre le Système de la nature (1770).

During the revolutionary years, the lawyer based in Aix-en-Provence and committed representative for the maintenance and creation of civil liberties Jean Joseph Pierre Pascalis (1732–1790) was extremely hostile to him. This went up to the call for murder by Abbé Rive, who also co-founded a political association there, the club des Antipolitiques . Incidentally, the lawyer Pascalis died of a violent death during the riots in 1790, Evocation du vieil Aix-en-Provence .

Works (selection)

  • Lettres philosophiques against the system of nature. Portfolio hébdomadaire de Bruxelles (1770)
  • Lettre vraiment philosophique. (1790)
  • Au trés-integre et au trés-respectable tribunal judiciaire de Marseille. (1791)
  • Chronique littéraire des ouvrages imprimés et manuscrits de l'abbé Rive. Imp. Of the "Anti-Copet (1793)
  • Eclaircissements historique et critiques sur l'invention des cartes à jouer. François-Ambroise Didot, Paris (1780)

literature

  • François Moureau: L'abbé Rive ou l'homme-bibliothèque: une "physiologie" provençale, dans Babel, Université de Toulon et du Var , no 6, (2002) pp. 105–125.
  • Anna Zbikowska-Migon; Andreas Fleischer: Beginnings of research in book studies in Europe: illustrated using the example of book historiography in the 18th century. Harrassowitz, (1994) ISBN 3-4470-3596-X p. 62.
  • Joseph-Marie Quérard: La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens et gens de lettres de la France, ainsi que les littérateurs étrangers qui ont écrit en français, plus particulièrement: pendant les XVIIIè et XIXè siècles. Firmin Didot père et fils, (1836) pp. 62-63.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dictionnaire des journalistes (1600-1789), online
  2. ↑ Joseph-Marie Quérard: La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens et gens de lettres de la France, ainsi que les littérateurs étrangers qui ont écrit en français, plus particulièrement: pendant les XVIIIè et XIXè siècles. Firmin Didot père et fils, (1836) pp. 62-63
  3. ↑ Évocation du vieil Aix-en-Provence, André Bouyala d'Arnaud, éditions de Minuit, 1864
personal data
SURNAME Rive, Jean-Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rive, Abbé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French librarian and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Apt
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1791
Place of death Marseille