Joseph Marie Quérard
Joseph Marie Quérard (born December 25, 1797 in Rennes , † December 3, 1865 in Paris ) was a French bibliographer.
Live and act
Born in Rennes , he became a bookseller there. He lived as a sales representative in Vienna from 1819 to 1824 , where he also wrote the first volumes of his great work La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens, et gens de lettres de la France, & c. (14 volumes, 1826–1842), which deals specifically with the 18th and early 19th centuries. He was able to complete this work in 1830 after a state participation, brokered by Guizot and the help of the Russian bibliophile Serge Poltoratzky (1803-1884) made this possible. Didot's publishing company took the Littérature française contemporaine from the work with which he wanted to complete this without his involvement and placed it with Ch. Louandre and F. Bourquelot. Quérard retaliated by correcting the mistakes made by his successors. Despite his merits, Quérard was unable to secure a job in a public library. He died in Paris.
Other works are: Les supercheries littéraires dévoilées (5 volumes, 1845–56); Bibliography La Menaisienne (1849); Dictionnaire des ouvrages-polyonymes et anonymes de la littérature française, 1700-1850 (1846-47); a supplementary volume to La France littéraire called Écrivains pseudonymes, etc. (1854–56).
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Marie Quérard in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
- Information on Joseph Marie Quérard in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quérard, Joseph Marie . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 22 : Poll - Reeves . London 1911, p. 742 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quérard, Joseph Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French bibliographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rennes |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 1865 |
| Place of death | Paris |