Victor Cherbuliez
Victor Cherbuliez (born July 19, 1829 in Geneva , Switzerland , † July 1 or 2, 1899 in Combs-la-Ville , Département Seine-et-Marne ) was a Swiss- French writer .
Life
Cherbuliez came from a Huguenot family who fled to Switzerland after the Edict of Nantes . His father was Andrè Cherbuliez, professor at the University of Geneva . Cherbuliez completed his school days in his hometown, where he studied mathematics at the university from 1847 to 1852.
He then began studying philosophy and philology at the Sorbonne .
He later moved to the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin . After his return to Geneva, Cherbuliez worked there for some time as a teacher and journalist and was friends with Jacques Alfred van Muyden .
He began his literary career towards the end of the 1850s when, after a trip to the Orient, he published the "Causeries athéniennes" in the magazine Revue des Deux Mondes . He then became an employee of the Revue and published there, among other things, his first work “Un cheval de Phidias” in 1860, “Le Comte Kostia” in 1863 and “Paula Méré” in 1864.
Victor Cherbuliez moved to Paris in 1875 and received French citizenship in 1879 . On December 18, 1881, the Académie française appointed him to succeed the late lawyer Jules Dufaure ( Fauteuil 3 ); he himself was followed in 1900 by the writer Émile Faguet in this position.
Around 1895 Cherbuliez withdrew from the public and settled in Combs-la-Ville . He died there three weeks before his 70th birthday and found his final resting place on the Cimetière Montparnasse .
Cherbuliez published many of his works under the pseudonym G. Valbert ; they were first in newspapers and magazines such as Revue des Deux Mondes and others. a. to read. With his fiction works he was initially somewhat overshadowed by George Sand , but soon found his unmistakable style.
Honors
- 1870 Legion of Honor
- 1882 Officer of the Legion of Honor
Works (selection)
- Fiction
- L'aventure de Ladislas Bolski . 1869.
- Le comte Kostia . 1863.
- La ferme de choquard . 1883.
- Meta Holdenig . 1873.
- Prosper Randoce . 1868.
- Non-fiction
- Un cheval de Phidias . 1860.
- Études de literature and art . 1887.
- Profiles étranges . 1889.
literature
- André Célières: Vector Cherbuliez, romancier, publiciste, philosophe . Librairie E. Droz, Paris 1936, OCLC 959717964 .
- Walter Hanhart: Victor Cherbuliez and the Movement , [Zurich] 1941, OCLC 715346467 (dissertation University of Zurich, Philosophical Faculty I, 1941, 140 pages).
- Winfried Engler : Lexicon of French Literature (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 388). Kröner, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-520-38801-4 , p. 204.
Web links
- Literature by and about Victor Cherbuliez in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Victor Cherbuliez in the German Digital Library
- Daniel Maggetti: Cherbuliez, Victor. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cherbuliez, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | G. Valbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-French writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1899 or July 2, 1899 |
| Place of death | Combs-la-Ville , Seine-et-Marne department |