Ferdinand Buisson
Ferdinand Édouard Buisson | |
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Autochrome by Georges Chevalier | |
Born | |
Died | 16 February 1932 | (aged 90)
Nationality | French |
Occupation | politician |
Known for | Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 |
Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (20 December 1841 – 16 February 1932) was a French educational bureaucrat,
Biography
Ferdinand Buisson was a student at the
Career
Buisson was a professor at what became the
From 1879 to 1896, Buisson was called by
Buisson was sympathetic to women's suffrage, unlike most Radicals, and was rapporteur of the committee that examined the proposal of Paul Dussaussoy for limited women's suffrage.[2] The bill was pushed to the bottom of the agenda of the committee on voting rules.[2] The President of the committee judged it important to separate the question of votes for women from the more important question of proportional representation, which was considered first. Buisson submitted a separate report on women's suffrage on 16 July 1909, some months after Dussaussoy's death.[3] Buisson's report supported the proposal.[4]
In 1914 and during the World War I, Buisson was one of the patriots and defended the Sacred Union.[5] He was elected again from 1919 to 1924, and worked for Franco-German reconciliation, especially after the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923. An early supporter of the League of Nations, he invited German pacifists to Paris and travels to Berlin.[6]
Ferdinand Buisson was also the prime contractor for a remarkable editorial project, the Dictionnaire de pédagogie et d'instruction primaire, for the writing of which he surrounded himself with more than 350 collaborators, and more particularly with James Guillaume who became its editor-in-chief. The first edition was published by Hachette between 1882 and 1887. A new edition was published in 1911. Not limited to the role of editorial responsibility, Buisson wrote entries such as Secularism, Intuition, and Prayer.[7] His dictionary is considered the "Bible" of the secular, republican school system, and introduced the concept of a secular religious replacement. The Minister of Education, Vincent Peillon, was one of his disciples. A supporter from the beginning of the League of Nations, Buisson then devoted himself to Franco-German rapprochement, especially after the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, inviting German pacifists to Paris and traveling to Berlin. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 with the German professor Ludwig Quidde.[1]
Tributes and distinctions
- Prize Marcelin Guérin of Académie Française, 1892
- Grand-officer de of Legion of honor, 1924
- Nobel Peace Prize, 1927
References
- ^ a b c Ferdinand Buisson. nobelprize.org
- ^ ISBN 978-0-415-22602-8
- ISBN 978-2-8309-5083-0
- ISBN 978-1-78099-161-0
- ^ Le père de l’école laïque
- ^ "Pertinence et actualité de l'œuvre de Ferdinand Buisson". Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ Syndicats d’instituteurs
External links
- Works by or about Ferdinand Buisson at Internet Archive
- "La religion, la morale et la science", F. Buisson, 1900, online and analyzed on BibNum [click 'à télécharger' for English analysis]
- Ferdinand Buisson on Nobelprize.org