Roger Chartier

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Roger Chartier (born December 9, 1945 in Lyon ) is a French historian . He is close to the Annales School and deals with the history of writing, printing, publishing, libraries and reading. During his academic career, he is primarily associated with the elite university École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and the Collège de France in Paris .

Roger Chartier, Prague 2011

life and work

Chartier studied history from 1964 at the École normal supérieure de Saint-Cloud and the Sorbonne with the licentiate in 1966, the May trip in 1967 and the Agrégation in history in 1969 (where he was classified as the best). He was then a teacher at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand until 1970 and then assistant at the Sorbonne (University of Paris I) and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales , where he became Maître de conférences in 1978 and Directeur d'études in 1983. In 2007 he became a professor at the Collège de France at the chair for writing culture in early modern Europe (Écrit et cultures dans l'Europe modern).

He was visiting professor and visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (Annenberg visiting professor since 2001), Montreal (1977) and Cornell University (Andrew White Professor at Large 1996 to 2001), at the Center for Renaissance Studies of the Newbury Library in Chicago and at the Folger Institute in Washington (1985), in Chicago, Yale, Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton University, Buenos Aires and at the École nationale des chartes in Paris.

In his book The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution he advocates the thesis that it was not enlighteners like Rousseau and Voltaire who prepared the revolution, but, conversely, their precursor role was invented by the revolutionaries, as it were, in order to legitimize the revolution and to underpin it ideologically.

He also deals with historical epistemology .

In 1992 he received the Grand Prix Gobert for his complete works. He is a corresponding member of the British Academy and Knight of the Legion of Honor . In 2016 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • with Marie-Madeleine Compère and Dominique Julia: L'Éducation en France du XVI au XVIIIe siècle , Société d'édition d'enseignement supérieur, Paris, 1976
  • Editor with Henri-Jean Martin: Histoire de l'édition française , 4 volumes, 1983–1986, 2nd edition 1989–1991, Paris: Fayard
  • Lectures et lecteurs dans la France d'Ancien Régime , Éditions du Seuil, 1987
  • The cultural use of print in early modern France , Princeton University Press 1987
  • The unfinished past. History and the power of world interpretation , Wagenbach 1989
  • Publisher La Correspondance. Les usages de la lettre au XIXe siècle , Paris: Fayard 1991
  • L'Ordre des livres. Lecteurs, auteurs, bibliothèques en Europe entre XIVe et XVIIIe siècle , Aix-en-Provence, 1992
  • Editor Les usages de l'imprimé. XVe - XIXe siècle. Nouveles études historiques , Fayard 1987
  • Published by Pratiques de la lecture , Paris: Payot 1993
  • Le Livre en révolutions, entretiens avec Jean Lebrun , Textuel, Paris, 1997,
  • Editor with Guglielmo Cavallo Histoire de la lecture dans le monde occidental , 1997, Ed. du Seuil 2001
    • German translation: The world of reading , Campus Verlag 1999
  • Au bord de la falaise. L'histoire entre certitudes et inquiétude , Éditions Albin Michel, Paris, 1998
  • Les origines culturelles de la Révolution Française , Ed. du Seuil 1990, 1999
    • German translation: The cultural origins of the French Revolution , Campus Verlag 1995
  • Editor with Jacques Le Goff , Jacques Revel Reconquering Historical Thought: Foundations of New History , Fischer Taschenbuch 1994
  • with Pierre Bourdieu Le sociologue et l'historien , Ed. Agone 2010 (Chartier spoke to Pierre Bourdieu for France Culture in 1988)
  • Cardenio entre Cervantes et Shakespeare. Histoire d'une pièce perdue , Gallimard 2011
  • with Philippe Ariès , Georges Duby History of Private Life , Volume 3, From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, S. Fischer 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Chartier, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon