Mathieu Auguste Geffroy

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Mathieu Auguste Geffroy (born April 21, 1820 in Paris , † August 16, 1895 in Bièvres ) was a French historian .

Geffroy attended the Collège Charlemagne and from 1840 to 1843 the École normal supérieure . Thereupon he became teacher of history at the colleges in Dijon , Clermont and Collège Louis le Grand in Paris and in 1852 professor of history at the faculty in Bordeaux .

In 1854 he went on a scientific trip to Sweden . After he was appointed teacher at the higher normal school in 1862 and professor of ancient history at the faculty in Paris in 1872 and was elected member of the academy in place of Augustin Thierry in 1874 , he was appointed director of the French school in Rome in 1875 , which he up to At the end of 1882.

Works

  • Histoire des États scandinaves (1851)
  • Notices et extraits des manuscrits français en Suède et Denmark (1855)
  • Gustave III et la cour de France (1867, 2 vols.)
  • Rome et les barbaren (1874)
  • École française in Rome (1876 and 1884)
  • Lettres inédites de Charles XII (1852)
  • Correspondance secrète de Marie-Antoinette (together with Alfred d'Arneth , 1859)
  • Lettres inédites de la Princesse Des Ursins (1859, Rome)
  • Études italiennes. Florence (La Renaissance) (1898)
personal data
SURNAME Geffroy, Mathieu Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1895
Place of death Bièvres (Essonne)