Marc Monnier

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Marc Monnier (born December 7, 1827 in Florence , † April 18, 1885 in Geneva ) was a Swiss writer of French origin.

Family and career

Monnier was the son of Jacques-Louis Monnier, a French originally from the Ardèche , and his wife Priscille Lacour, a Swiss from Geneva. Monnier spent the first years of his childhood in Florence and moved to Naples with his parents in 1832 .

Monnier studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the universities of Geneva , Heidelberg and Berlin . In 1864 he was appointed professor of comparative literary history at the University of Geneva, a position he held until his death. From 1878 to 1880 he was rector of the university. Monnier was friends with Jacques Alfred van Muyden .

Monnier was married to Hélène Dufour from Cartigny (near Geneva), who published her own stories under the pseudonym Jean des Roches after the death of her husband. The writer Philippe Monnier emerged from the marriage.

reception

Monnier wrote a large number of small, mostly satirical pieces; a selection appeared in 1871 under the title Théâtre de marionettes . A collection of stories that official literary criticism deemed “extremely remarkable” followed in 1879.

He also had his non-fiction books, such as Genève et ses poètes or La renaissance. De Dante à Luther received high praise. The latter was even awarded by the Académie française . Today Marc Monnier is part of the wider Parnassian community .

Works (selection)

Fiction
  • Theater de marionettes. Geneva 1871
  • Poésies. Geneva 1872
  • Nouvelles napolitaines. Paris 1879
German Neapolitan novellas. Leipzig 1899 (translation: Siegfried Lederer)
Neapolitan novellas. Reinbek near Hamburg 1946 (translation: Doris Pake)
  • Le charmeur. Paris 1882
dt. The cuckoo clock. Bern 1940 (translation: Paul Haag)
Non-fiction
  • Garibaldi . Histoire de la conquête des Deux-Sicilies, notes prices on place au jour le jour. Paris 1861
  • La Camorra. Note storiche raccolte e documentate. Firenze 1862
  • L'Italia. All'opera dal 1860 al 1869 . Milano 1869
  • Genève et ses poètes du XVIe siècle a nos jours . Paris 1874
  • Les contes populaires. Paris 1880
  • Histoire générale de la littérature modern.
Tome 1: La renaissance. De Dante à Luther . Paris 1884
German literary history of the Renaissance from Dante to Luther. Nordlingen 1888
Tome 2: La reforme. De Luther a Shakespeare. Paris 1883
Translations

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Marc Monnier  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ua Silhouettes genevoises , Genève 1887