Pierre Daru

Pierre Antoine Noël Mathieu Bruno Daru Graf, (born January 12, 1767 in Montpellier , † September 5, 1829 at his country estate Becheville near Meulan ), was a French financier , poet and historian .

Life

He entered the military at the age of 16 and was a war commissioner when he joined the revolution in 1789 . Arrested as a suspect in 1793, he was not given his freedom until the 9th Thermidor , but not his job again. In 1795 he became head of a department in the War Ministry and soon afterwards head of the directorate of the Danube Army. During this management he completed his translation of Horace “Traduction en vers des poésies d'Horace” , Paris. 1800; 6th edition. 1823, 2 vol., Which established its literary reputation. Napoleon I used him in the war administration and for increasingly important business, raised him to the rank of count and appointed him minister and plenipotentiary for the peace agreements of Pressburg , Tilsit and Vienna . In 1805, 1807 and 1809 he was general manager in Prussia and Austria. In 1811 he became State Secretary and fought Napoleon's plans for conquest in the Council of Ministers. After the Restoration , he initially shared the lot of restitution with other supporters of Napoleon, but was appointed peer in 1818 and now voted in the spirit of the moderate party. Since 1828 he was a member of the Academy of Sciences . His brother was: Count Martial Noel Pierre Daru .

In 1807 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1808 he was a foreign and since 1812 honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

His name is entered on the triumphal arch in Paris in the 20th column.

Works

Cléopédie, ou théorie des réputations littéraires (Paris 1800).
Main work Histoire de la république de Venise (Paris 1819, 7 volumes; 4th edition 1853, 9 volumes; German by Ruprecht, Leipzig 1854, 4 volumes)
Histoire des ducs de Bretagne (4th edition, Paris 1828, 4 volumes; German by Schubert, Leipzig 1831, 2 volumes).
L'astronomie (Paris 1836).

literature

Daru, Pierre Antoine Noel Bruno . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 4, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1906, p. 529 .
Daru . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 4 . Altenburg 1858, p. 754 ( zeno.org ).

Web links

Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 65.
^ Members of the previous academies. Pierre Antoine Bruno Comte Daru. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 11, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Daru, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Daru, Pierre Antoine Noel Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French financier, poet and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montpellier
DATE OF DEATH	September 5, 1829
Place of death	Becheville at Meulan's

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 65.

[2] Members of the previous academies. Pierre Antoine Bruno Comte Daru. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 11, 2015 .