Marc Fumaroli

Marc Fumaroli (born June 10, 1932 in Marseille ; † June 24, 2020 in Paris ) was a French philologist , literary scholar , historian and essayist who was a member of the Académie française from 1995 .

Life

Fumaroli, who spent his childhood and youth in Fès , received his primary education from his mother before attending the Lycée in Fès, where he received his Baccalauréat . After attending the Lycée Thiers in Marseille, he studied philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille and the Sorbonne and graduated in 1958. He then did his military service between September 1958 and January 1961.

In September 1963 he received a three-year scholarship from the Thiers Foundation and in 1965 became a research assistant at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Lille . After completing his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Paris IV in June 1976, he became a lecturer and successor to Raymond Picard, who died in September 1975, a professor of French literature of the 17th century . As such, he was editor of XVIIe siècle magazine from 1976 to 1986 and at the same time member of the editorial team of Commentaire magazine between 1978 and 2010 , which was headed by Raymond Aron until 1983 and since then by Jean-Claude Casanova . In 1977 he was one of the founding members of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and was its President between 1984 and 1985 and, as such, the organizer of the Third International Conference in Tours . Between 1984 and 1994 he was director of the Study Center for French Language and Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries of the University IV and the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

In 1986, on the recommendation of the poet Yves Bonnefoy and the historian Jean Delumeau , Fumaroli accepted a professorship for rhetoric and society in Europe from the 16th to the 17th centuries at the Collège de France , the most prestigious scientific institution in France. In addition to this teaching activity, he was president of the Association for the Protection of Literary Education (SEL) founded by Jacqueline de Romilly from 1993 to 1999 . In October 2006 he succeeded Gabriel de Broglie as President of the Inter-Ministerial Commission on Terminology . He was also the founder and director of the European Institute for the History of Philosophy, located in the École normal supérieure in Paris.

He died on June 24, 2020 at the age of 88.

honors and awards

Fumaroli became a member of the Académie française on March 2, 1995 after the death of Eugène Ionesco and sat there on the sixth armchair (armchair 6) . In addition, he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1998 , where he took the place of Georges Duby .

He was both a visiting professor at All Souls College of the University of Oxford in 1983 and at the Institute for Applied Studies of Princeton University . He has also received numerous honorary doctorates , such as in 1994 from the University of Naples , 1999 from the University of Bologna , in 2004 from the University of Genoa and in 2005 from the Complutense University of Madrid .

He was also a member of numerous academic academies such as the British Academy (from 1989), the Academia Europaea (from 1990), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (from 1996) and, from 1997, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the American Philosophical Society . As successor to René Pomeau , he also became president of the French Society for the History of Literature . In 2001 he was awarded the Balzan Prize .

Finally he was in command of the Legion of Honor , the Ordre national du Mérite , the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Grand Officer (Grande Ufficiale) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

Publications

• L'Âge de l'éloquence - rhetorique et "res literaria" de la Renaissance au seuil de l'époque classique , Droz, 1980; New edition Albin Michel, 1994, ISBN 2-226-06951-8
• Héros et Orateurs, rhetorique et dramaturgie cornélienne , Droz, 1990
• L'État culturel - une religion moderne , Éditions de Fallois, 1991; New edition Livre de Poche, 1999, ISBN 2-253-06081-X
• La Diplomatie de l'esprit - de Montaigne à La Fontaine , Hermann, 1995; New edition 1998, ISBN 2-7056-6380-0
• Rome et Paris - capitales de la République européenne des Lettres , 1999, ISBN 3-8258-3861-7
• Histoire de la rhetorique dans l'Europe moderne - 1450–1950 , Presses Universitaires de France, 1999, ISBN 2-13-049526-5
• L'École du silence. Le sentiment des images au XVIIème siècle , Paris, Flammarion, 1999, ISBN 978-2-07-042132-9
• Quand l'Europe parlait français , Éditions de Fallois, 2001, ISBN 2-87706-426-3
• Chateaubriand - Poésie et Terreur , Éditions de Fallois, 2003, ISBN 2-87706-483-2
• Maurice Quentin de La Tour et le siècle de Louis XV , Éditions du Quesne, 2005, ISBN 2-909989-23-2
• Exercices de lecture - De Rabelais à Paul Valéry , Gallimard, “Bibliothèque des idées”, 2006, ISBN 2-07-072985-0
• Peinture et Pouvoirs aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles - de Rome à Paris , Faton, 2007, ISBN 978-2-87844-094-2
• Paris-New York et back: Voyage dans les arts et les images Journal 2007–2008 , Fayard, 2009, ISBN 978-2-213-62483-9
• Discours de réception de Jean Clair à l'Académie Française et réponse de Marc Fumaroli , Gallimard, 2009, ISBN 9782070127825
• Le big bang et après? , Co-authors Alexandre Adler , Blandine Kriegel and Trịnh Xuân Thuận , Albin Michel, 2010, ISBN 9782226207456
• L'Homme de cour, préface-essai sur l'œuvre de Baltasar Gracián , Gallimard, “Folio Classique”, 2011, ISBN 978-2-07-042132-9

Background literature

• Roxanne Roy: Marc Fumaroli: rayonnement d'une oeuvre , 2007

Web links

• Literature by and about Marc Fumaroli in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Marc Fumaroli International Foundation Balzan Prize

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marc Fumaroli est mort. In: Le Figaro. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .