Pierre-Charles Levesque

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Pierre-Charles Levesque (born March 28, 1736 in Paris , † May 12, 1812 there ) was a French historian , translator and university professor.

Live and act

With a recommendation from Denis Diderot , after a certain time after his studies he was able to go to Saint Petersburg as a professor , where he taught at the Naval Cadet School in Saint Petersburg ( Russian Морской кадетский корпус ) from 1773 to 1780.

He stayed in Russia for a total of seven years , where he collected materials for a pamphlet on the history of this country, which he published on his return to France. This work was also a great success in Russia itself.

Back in France later, Levesque took a chair at the Collège de France . He translated Xenophon and Plutarch as well as other ancient classics. He also published numerous articles in various literary and scientific journals.

He was the grandfather of the French archaeologist and historian Jules Petigny (1801-1858).

Works (selection)

  • Histoire de Russie , Paris, 1785
  • Histoire des différents peuples soumis à la domination des Russes , ou Suite de l'Histoire de Russie
  • La France sous les cinq premiers Valois, ou histoire de France depuis l'avènement de Philippe de Valois jusqu'à la mort de Charles VII , Paris, De Bure, 1787,
  • Dictionnaire des arts de peinture, sculpture et gravure , avec Watelet , Paris, Prault 1792
  • Dictionnaire des beaux-arts de l'Encyclopédie Méthodique , Paris, Panckoucke, 1788
  • Études de l'histoire ancienne et de celle de la Grèce: de la constitution de la république d'Athènes et de celle de Lacédémone, de la législation, des tribunaux, des mœurs et usages des Athéniens, de la poésie, de la philosophie et des arts chez les Grecs , Paris, Fournier Frères, 1811
  • Opuscules philosophiques .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ André Mazon: Pierre-Charles Levesque, humaniste, historien et moraliste. Revue des études slaves Année 1963 Volume 42 Numéro 42-1-4 pp. 7-66
  2. ↑ Vladimir Somov: Pierre-Charles Levesque, protégé de Diderot et historien de la Russie. Cahiers du monde russe 43 / 2–3 (2002) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / monderusse.revues.org
personal data
SURNAME Levesque, Pierre-Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1812
Place of death Paris