Zoé Oldenburg
Zoé Oldenburg ( Russian Зоя Сергеевна Ольденбург , soy Sergejewna Oldenburg , French Zoé Oldenbourg ; born March 18, jul. / 31 March 1916 greg. In Petrograd , † 8. November 2002 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) was a French writer, historian and painter Russian descent.
Life
Oldenburg came from the noble family of Oldenburg . Her grandfather Sergei Fjodorowitsch Oldenburg (1863-1934) was a Russian State Councilor, Minister and Professor of Oriental Studies and Indology at the University of Saint Petersburg . Her parents were the journalist and historian Sergei Oldenburg (1888-1940) and the mathematician Ada Starynkewitsch . In 1925 her family emigrated to Paris , with four younger siblings .
Oldenburg studied at the Lycée Molière and became a French historian specializing in medieval French history, particularly that of the Crusades and that of the Cathars . As a writer, she also dealt thematically with historical topics. Her book Katharina the Great , which had eight editions, was particularly successful in Germany . In 1953 she was awarded the French Prix Femina literary prize for her work La Pierre Angulaire . She later became a member of the Prix Femina jury. In her youth she also tried her hand at painting.
As early as 1948 she married Heinric Idalovici , with whom she had two children.
Works
- Argile et Cendres (1946).
- German: Because the heart will never find rest. Darmstadt; Geneva: Holle 1954
- La Pierre Angulaire (1953).
- German: On this rock. Darmstadt; Baden-Baden; Geneva: Holle 1955
- Réveillés de la vie (1956).
- Les irréductibles (1958).
- Le Bûcher de Montségur (1959).
- Les Brûlés (1960).
- Les Cités Charnelles (1961).
- Les Croisades (1965)
- German: The Crusades: Dream and Reality of a Century. Frankfurt a. M .: GB Fischer 1967
- Catherine de Russie (1966)
- German: Catherine of Russia: German princess on the Tsar's throne. Munich: Piper 1969
- Expanded paperback edition under the title Catherine the Great: The Germans on the Tsar's Throne. Munich: Heyne [1975] ISBN 3-453-55018-8 , 8th edition 1994 ISBN 3-453-08508-6
- La Joie des Pauvres (1970).
- Saint Bernard (1970).
- Que vous a donc fait Israël? (1974).
- Visages d'un autoportrait (1977).
- La Joie-souffrance (1980).
- Le Procès du rêve (1982).
- L'Évêque et la vieille dame, ou la belle-mère de Peytavi Borsier (1983).
- Que nous est Hécube? (1984).
- Les amours égarées (1987).
- Déguisements (1989).
- Aliénor (1992)
literature
- Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) , Hamburg 2011, Vol. 1, p. 303
- Theodore L. Steinberg : The Use and Abuse of Medieval History: Four Contemporary Novelists and the First Crusade. Studies in Medievalism, II.1 (Fall 1982), pp. 77-93.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mort de Zoé Oldenbourg ( Liberation , November 9, 2002, French, accessed June 16, 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oldenburg, Zoé |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oldenbourg, Zoé; Oledenburg, Zoé von; Ольденбург, Зоя Сергеевна |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter, historian and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petrograd |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 2002 |
| Place of death | Boulogne-Billancourt |