Joseph Rambaud

scientist
Joseph Rambaud
Born on the	Aug 18, 1849
born in	Lyon ( France )
died on	March 18, 1919
died in	Lyon ( France )

Joseph Rambaud (born August 18, 1849 in Lyon , † March 28, 1919 ibid) was a French professor, economist and businessman. In 1879 he founded the Catholic daily Le Nouvelliste de Lyon .

biography

Joseph Rambaud came from an old Lyon family of silk manufacturers and mayors. He embodied those wealthy and Christian families who are involved in society, similar to Édouard Aynard , who represented the more progressive direction.

From 1866 to 1869 he was a student of the Jesuits of Mongré in Villefranche-sur-Saône , in 1870 he became a papal Zuave before he began to study law and literature in Paris. He was the landowner, shareholder and administrator of the Firminy mines and the Terrenoire forges . He then worked as a lawyer for a few years before devoting himself to teaching and helping to found the Catholic faculty of Lyon.

After teaching criminal law and financial legislation (1892), he decided to start a course in political economy at the Catholic faculty. He was also the first professor of political economy in Lyon and the second in France. He developed independent economic ideas and resisted subscribing to the prevailing socialist or liberal doctrine; he could not be assigned to any direction. In 1914 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . He was connected to the social values ​​of the church.

He wanted to put his fortune in the service of his ideas and founded the political daily Le Nouvellist de Lyon , which he ran for 40 years. The newspaper spread over several French regions and reached a circulation of 100,000 copies. Between the two world wars it had a circulation of 200,000 copies. It was later headed by his son Régis. He defended Christian principles without being affiliated with any political party. His newspaper was the competitor of the progressive newspaper Progrès de Lyon .

He also had two political mandates: he was mayor of Vaugneray (1882-1892) and conseiller générale .

Marriage and family

He was the nephew of Frédéric Ozanam and related to Pierre-Thomas Rambaud , Baron of the Empire.

In 1872 he married Claudine Berloty, who was related to Pauline Jaricot . The marriage resulted in 12 children; of these, Régis Rambaud was the successor at Le Nouvelliste and Henri Rambaud was professor of literature, journalist and writer. He was the great grandfather of Claire de Castelbajac .

Honors

He was a member of the Légion d'honneur and commander of the Order of Gregory ( Ordre de Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand ).

Works / publications

• Des donations entre époux, Thèse de doctorat, 1875
• Le droit criminel romain dans les actes des martyrs, 1885
• Ce qu'il faut faire face en face des Lois Brisson, simple considérations présentées aux congrégations religieuses par un catholique 1891, Imprimerie Jevain
• Éléments d'économie politique , Paris et Lyon, 1894
• Histoire des doctrines économiques , Paris et Lyon, 1899
• Histoire des doctrines économiques , Paris et Lyon, 1899
• Cours d'économie politique , Paris et Lyon, 1910
• Le songe du frère Lai , Lyon

He wrote numerous articles in the booklets L'Université catholique on questions of law, economy and society ( Les banqueroutes de l'ancien régime de 1700 à 1789, 1890; Le socialisme et les lois économiques 1891; L'idée de Dieu dans l'ordre économique 1902; Christianisme et solidarité 1906); La critique du libéralisme (Les catholiques de M. l'abbé Calippe 1er septembre 1911; Le pacifisme chrétien, 15 septembre 1912; Le sens social, 15 aout 1913; La valeur, le travail et le salaire d'après le discours de Sarlat 15 septembre, 1st and 15th octobre, 1st December 1913 ).

He wrote regularly in the daily newspaper he founded without a signature; under the pseudonym M. Tramoy he wrote numerous literary reviews .

Individual proof and note

Dictionnaire du monde religieux dans la France contemporaine, volume 6, Jean Marie Mayeur, Xavier de Montclos Le Nouvelliste de Lyon et la défense religieuse (1879/1889), Louis de Vaucelles, Paris, 1971