Joseph François Michaud
Joseph François Michaud (born June 19, 1767 in Mognard , † September 30, 1839 in Passy , now part of Paris ) was a French historian.
Life
He was the son of a notary from La Biolle . Michaud received his education in Bourg-en-Bresse and then went to Lyon , where he studied literature extensively. It was also there that he first came into contact with the French Revolution and developed a great aversion to its ideals and execution that lasted throughout his life. In 1791 he went to Paris and worked on some royalist magazines at enormous risk . From 1796 he worked for the magazine La Quotidienne , for which he was soon imprisoned. However, he escaped from custody and was sentenced to death in absentia by a military tribunal. Meanwhile, the royalist Michaud continued his work critical of the revolution and was banned for it, but returned to Paris after two years when the consulate replaced the Directory under Napoleon Bonaparte .
His sympathies for the Bourbons brought Michaud back into custody in 1800, whereupon he temporarily gave up his journalistic activities after his release and now wrote and published books. In 1806 the book Biographie moderne ou dictionnaire des hommes qui se sont fait un nom en Europe, depuis 1789 (Modern biography or lexicon of men who have made a name for themselves since 1789) was published, which was the first work of its kind, and five years later the first volume of his Histoire des croisades (History of the Crusades ) and Biographie universelle .
In 1813 Michaud became a member of the Académie française and occupied Fauteuil 29. Two years later, his very successful work Histoire des quinze semaines ou le dernier règne de Bonaparte (History of Fifteen Weeks or the Last Reign of Bonaparte), which was directed against Napoleon, was published .
Together with his brother Louis Gabriel Michaud (1773-1858) he just published the fifty-two-volume biography universelle ancienne et moderne (1811-1828).
For his political merits, after Napoleon's exile, he received an officer title in the Legion of Honor and the post of royal reader, which was revoked from him in 1827 in the course of a dispute over freedom of the press. From 1830 to 1831 Michaud traveled to Egypt and Syria to gather additional information for his story of the Crusades . Michaud lived in the Paris suburb of Passy from 1832, where he died in 1839. He was buried on the Cimetière de Passy .
Works
- Histoire des progrès et de la chûte de l'empire de Mysore, sous les règnes d'Hyder-Aly et Tippoo-Saïb (1801)
- Le Printemps d'un proscrit, poème en 3 chants, suivi de plusieurs lettres à M. Delille sur la pitié (1803)
- Biographie Moderne, ou Dictionnaire biographique de tous les hommes morts et vivants qui ont marqué à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au commencement de celui-ci (1806)
- Histoire des croisades (1812–1822)
- Histoire des quinze semaines ou le dernier règne de Bonaparte (1815)
- Bibliothèque des croisades (1822)
- Correspendance d'Orient (1833-1835)
- Nouvelle Collection de Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à nos jours (1836–1839)
- Veillées de famille, contes instructifs et proverbes moraux en français, en Italien, en anglais, et en allemand. Ouvrage nouveau à l'usage de l'enfance et de la jeunesse de tous les pays (1837)
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph François Michaud in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Joseph François Michaud in the German Digital Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Joseph François Michaud
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michaud, Joseph François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Michaud, Joseph-François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1767 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mognard |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1839 |
| Place of death | Passy , now part of Paris |