Max Buchon
Max Buchon (born May 8, 1818 in Salins-les-Bains ( Franche-Comté ), † December 14, 1869 in Salins) was a French writer .
The son of a former officer studied at the College of St. Michael in Freiburg im Üechtland from 1834–37 . Back in Salins, he became a freelance writer, but remained connected to Switzerland, to which he traveled several times and which he repeatedly considered in his novels.
Buchon was considered a supporter of the French social theorist and representative of early socialism Charles Fourier . 1848–51 Buchon worked as editor of the newspaper rouge in Salins. After the coup d'état of Napoleon III. he fled to Switzerland, first to Friborg, then to Bern . In 1856 he was pardoned at the request of his childhood friend Gustave Courbet , who had previously portrayed him in his programmatic monumental painting Das Atelier (1855; Paris, Musée du Louvre ).
Buchon also translated works by Jeremias Gotthelf into French and made them known in France. At the suggestion of his friend Jules Champfleury, he published a study on realism in L'Indépendant , a newspaper from Neuchâtel (city) .
Web links
- Publications by and about Max Buchon in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Information on Max Buchon in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buchon, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salins-les-Bains , Franche-Comté |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1869 |
| Place of death | Salins-les-Bains , Franche-Comté |