Émile Gebhart
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Émile Gebhart (19 July 1839, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle – 22 April 1908, Paris) was a French academic and writer, He was elected to the Académie Française (fauteuil 34) in 1905.
He was attacked by Radicals for his religious and patriotic ideals.
Life
He was the grand-nephew of
University of Nancy
.
A chair of Southern European literature was instituted specially for him at the
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
.
Every summer, for twenty-five years, he spent three months in Italy, visiting Rome, Milan, Florence, Venice, seeking books in libraries, staying in monasteries and talking with the monks, and gathering popular legends.
Works
His favourite subjects were Greek antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. His style is clear, if slightly sarcastic at times. His works include:
- "Praxitele" (1864),
- "La Renaissance et la Réforme" (1877),
- "Les Origines de la Renaissance en Italie" (1879),
- "L' Italie mystique" (1890), translated as "Mystics and Heretics in Italy" (1922),
- "Le son des Cloches, contes et légendes" (1898),
- "Moines et Papes" (1896),
- "Autour d' une tiare" (1894),
- "Cloches de Noël et de Pâques" (1900),
- "Conteurs florentins au moyen-âge" (1901),
- "Jules II" (1904),
- "Florence" (1906),
- "Souvenirs d'un vieil Athénien" (1911).
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Emile Gebhart". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
