Saint-René Taillandier

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Saint-René Taillandier 1879.

Saint-René Taillandier (born December 16, 1817 in Paris , † February 22, 1879 ibid) was a French Romance scholar , comparativeist and historian.

life and work

René Gaspard Ernest Taillandier, son of the poet René Taillandier (1786–1867), studied in Heidelberg and Munich, among others. From 1841 he taught at the University of Strasbourg . He completed his habilitation in Paris in 1843 with the two Thèses Scot Érigène Johannes Scottus Eriugena , Strasbourg / Paris 1843, and De Summa providentia res humanas administrante quid senserint prioris Ecclesiae scriptores, et quae fuerit apud eos hujus doctrinae fortuna et incrementum. Dissertatio academica (Paris 1843) and taught at the University of Montpellier , from 1846 to 1863 as a professor. Then he was appointed to the Sorbonne and was there from 1868 on the chair of rhetoric. In 1870, at the beginning of the Third Republic, he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Education. From November 1872 he was officially allowed to take the name Saint-René Taillandier. In 1874 he was accepted into the Académie française .

From 1846 he published regularly in the Revue des Deux Mondes and summarized his contributions to numerous books. In addition to the French, he was particularly interested in European literature and history. He took a benevolent share in the emergence of New Provencal literature from 1852 and the movement of Félibrige .

Works

  • Beatrice. Poème, Paris 1840
  • Histoire de la jeune Allemagne. Études littéraires, Paris 1848
  • Études sur la révolution en Allemagne, 2 vol., Paris 1853
  • Allemagne et Russie. Etudes historiques et littéraires, Paris 1856
  • Histoire et philosophie religieuse. Études et fragments, Paris 1859
  • Littérature étrangère. Écrivains et poètes modern, Paris 1861
  • La Comtesse d'Albany, Paris 1862
  • (Ed.) Correspondance entre Goethe et Schiller, 2 vol., Paris 1863
  • Maurice de Saxe, Paris 1865, 1870
  • Tchèques et Magyars. Bohême et Hongrie. XVe siècle – XIXe siècle, Paris 1869
  • Drames et romans de la vie littéraire. La comtesse d'Ahlefeldt, Henri et Charlotte Stieglitz, Henri de Kleist, Paris 1871
  • La Serbie. Kara-George et Milosch, Paris 1872 (Serbian 1999)
  • Le Général Philippe de Ségur. Sa vie et son temps, Paris 1875
  • Dix ans de l'histoire d'Allemagne. Origines du nouvel empire d'après la correspondance de Frédéric-Guillaume IV et du baron de Bunsen (1847–1857), Paris 1875
  • Les Destinées de la nouvelle poésie provençale, in: Revue des Deux mondes December 1, 1876; Paris 1881
  • Les Renégats de 89. Souvenirs du cours d'éloquence française à la Sorbonne, Paris 1877
  • Le Roi Léopold et la Reine Victoria. Récits d'histoire contemporaine, 2 vols., Paris 1878
  • Études littéraires. Un poète comique du temps de Molière (Boursault. Sa vie et ses œuvres). La Renaissance de la poésie provençale, Paris 1881
  • (Translator) Heinrich Heine, Allemagne. Un conte d'hiver / Germany. A winter fairy tale, Villers-Cotterêts 2013 (bilingual)

literature

  • Emile Montégut, M. Saint-René Taillandier, in: Revue des Deux mondes , June 1, 1880, pp. 583–626
  • Luc Fraisse, Les Fondements de l'histoire littéraire de Saint-René Taillandier à Lanson , Geneva / Paris 2002
  • Philippe Martel, Le professeur Saint-René Taillandier et la "nationalité provençale" des félibres, in: L'éveil des nationalités et les revendications linguistiques en Europe (1830-1930) , Paris 2006, pp. 221-240

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personal data
SURNAME Saint-René Taillandier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taillandier, René Gaspard Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist, comparativeist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1879
Place of death Paris