Maximilien Vox
Maximilien Vox (born December 16, 1894 in Condé-sur-Noireau , † December 18, 1974 in Lurs , real name Samuel William Théodore Monod ) is the stage name of a French writer and typographer , from whom the form classification according to Vox comes.
Vox was the eldest son of the Reformed pastor and theologian Wilfred Monod and brother of the zoologist and Africa researcher Théodore Monod . He grew up in Rouen and from 1909 in Paris , where he graduated from school. As early as 1914 he published his first humorous drawings in French newspapers, including L'Humanité . From 1917 he lived on the Côte d'Azur .
From the 1920s onwards, Vox mainly worked as an illustrator and designed book covers. In 1926 he received the Prix Blumenthal . From 1926 he published together with Charles Peignot Les Divertissements Typographiques , a typographical quarterly magazine. He was the founder of the École de Lurs and the Union Bibliophile de France (1942).
Vox had been married to Éliane Poulain since 1917 and had five sons with her, including the Anglicist and translator Sylvère Monod (1921-2006) and the theater scholar Richard Monod (1930-1989).
Web links
- Literature by and about Maximilien Vox in the catalog of the German National Library
- biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vox, Maximilien |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monod, Samuel William Théodore (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French typographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Condé-sur-Noireau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th December 1974 |
| Place of death | Lurs |