René Sturel
René Sturel (born April 23, 1885 in Paris , † August 22, 1914 in Châtelet (Belgium) ) was a French Romanist and Renaissance specialist.
life and work
René Jules Eugène Sturel graduated from the Lycée Condorcet and studied at the Sorbonne with Gustave Lanson . He obtained his license in 1905, the Diplôme d'Etudes supérieures in 1907 and the Agrégation des lettres in 1909 . He was a high school teacher in Saint-Etienne , Beauvais and Le Havre , in between two years scholarship at the Sorbonne . A habilitation thesis on the effects of Hellenism in France was in preparation.
Sturel fell as a lieutenant in the 36th Infantry Regiment on August 22, 1914 in the Battle of the Sambre in Châtelet (Belgium) . His individual grave is in the La Belle Motte military cemetery (grave no. 538) in Aiseau-Presles .
Works
- Jacques Amyot. Traducteur des "Vies parallèles" de Plutarque , Paris 1908, Geneva 1974 (award-winning thesis)
- Notes on Étienne Dolet d'aprés des inédits, in: Revue du seizième siècle 1, 1913
- Bandello en France au XVIe siècle , Bordeaux 1918, Geneva 1970 (preface by Henri Hauvette )
Web links
- Literature by and about René Sturel in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.lesecrivainscombattants.org/pantheon.pdf (list of 560 writers who died in World War I and whose names are immortalized in the Panthéon (Paris) , including René Sturel)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sturel, René |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romanist and Renaissance specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1914 |
| Place of death | Châtelet (Belgium) |