Robert Aron

Robert Aron (born May 25, 1898 in Le Vésinet , Département Seine-et-Oise , † April 19, 1975 in Paris ) was a French historian and essayist who became a member of the Académie française in 1974 .

Life

After attending the Lycée Condorcet , he served in the armed forces during the First World War and was awarded the Croix de guerre 1914–1918 for his services . After the end of the war he studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Paris and graduated from the Agrégation . After completing his studies, he became involved in literary and intellectual circles and founded the Alfred Jarry Theater in Paris in 1926 together with Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac .

Aron wrote in the 1930s numerous works and belonged before the Second World War along with Arnaud Dandieu , Emmanuel Mounier , Denis de Rougemont , Daniel-Rops , Alexandre Marc and other young into a circle French, who the opposition against the new European legal and extreme left-wing dictatorships because they endangered their democratic ideas. Based on these ideas, he ran the magazine L'Ordre nouveau together with Dandieu and wrote a number of well-known essays with it .

After he was arrested several times by Germans and Spaniards during the Second World War, he went to Algiers , where he worked for the governments of Henri Giraud and then Charles de Gaulle . After the end of World War II, he became involved in the Mouvement fédéraliste français , founded in 1944 , a movement that advocated a federal French state in a Europe of Nations.

In the mid-1950s he became increasingly concerned with contemporary history and wrote works such as Histoire de Vichy (1954), Histoire de la Liberation (1959) and Histoire de l'Épuration (1967 to 1969), a four-volume treatise on the Commission d'Épuration . In other books he dealt with questions of religion as well as with the critical examination of Christianity . His most famous work Les années obscures de Jésus (1960) was awarded the Prix Femina Vacaresco excellent and into English , Italian , German , Dutch , Norwegian and Swedish translated .

On March 7, 1974, he was elected to succeed Georges Izard as a member of the Académie française and took the 32nd armchair (Fauteuil 32) there until his death. Robert Aron was also an officer in the Legion of Honor .

Publications

• Le cancer américain , 1931
• Décadence de la nation française , 1931
• La révolution nécessaire , 1934
• Victoire à Waterloo , 1937
• Principes du fédéralisme , co-author Alexandre Marc, 1948
• Retour à l'Éternel , 1950
• Le Piège où nous a pris l'Histoire (chronique 1940-1944) , 1950
• Portrait de Jésus , 1951
• Histoire de Vichy , co-author Georgette Elgey, 1954
• Ce que je crois , 1955
• Histoire de la Liberation de la France , co-author Y. Ganrier-Rizet, 1959
• Les années obscures de Jésus , co-author S. Raymond-Weil, 1960
• Les origines de la guerre d'Algérie , co-authors J. Feller, F. Lavagne and Y. Garnier-Rizet, 1962
• Les grands dossiers de l'Histoire contemporaine , 1962
• Nouveaux grands dossiers de l'Histoire contemporaine , 1963
• Histoire de Dieu , co-author S. Raymond-Weil, 1963
• Charles de Gaulle , 1964
• Histoire de l'épuration , 4 volumes, co-author Y. Garnier-Rizet, 1967 to 1969
• Ainsi priait Jésus enfant , co-author S. Raymond-Weil, 1968
• L'histoire contemporaine depuis 1944 , 1969
• Le socialisme français face au marxisme , 1971
• Discours contre la méthode , 1974
• Léopold III ou le choix impossible , 1977
• ... Où souffle l'esprit: Judaïsme et chrétienté , 1979
• Fragments d'une vie , 1981

Web links and sources

• Literature by and about Robert Aron in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)