Gabriel Monod

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Gabriel Monod (7 March 1844 – 10 April 1912) was a French historian, the nephew of Adolphe Monod.

Biography

Born in Ingouville,

Humboldt University in Berlin. The teaching of Georg Waitz definitely directed his studies towards the history of the Middle Ages. Returning to France in 1868 he was nominated by Victor Duruy to give lectures on history, following the method used in German seminaries, at the École des hautes études.[1]

When the

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The war being over he returned to teaching. At this period of his life he wrote Grégoire de Tours et Marius d'Avenche (1872); Frédégaire, whose history, taken from original manuscripts, he published in 1885; a translation of a book of W. Junghans, Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech, with introduction and notes (1879); Études critiques sur les sources de l'histoire carolingienne (1898, 1st part only published); and Bibliographie de l'histoire de France (1888). He himself said that his pupils were his best books; he intended to teach them not so much new facts as the way to study, endeavouring to develop in them an idea of criticism and truth. They showed their gratitude by dedicating a book to him in 1896, Études d'histoire du moyen âge, and after his retirement in 1905 by having his features engraved on a slab (see À Gabriel Monod, en souvenir de son enseignement: École pratique des hautes études, 1868–1905, École normale supérieure, 1880–1904. 26 May 1907).[1]

Monod married Olga Herzen, daughter of Russian political thinker Alexander Herzen, in 1873.[2]

In 1876 he founded the Revue Historique,[3] which rapidly became a great authority on scientific education. Some of his articles in this and other periodicals were put together in book form, Les Maîtres de l'histoire: Ernest Renan, Hippolyte Taine, Jules Michelet (1894); Portraits et souvenirs (1897: on Victor Hugo, Fustel de Coulanges, Victor Duruy, etc.)[1] In 1903 he published Souvenirs d'adolescence, and in 1905 Études sur Michelet, sa vie et ses Œuvres.[4]

Gabriel Monod died in 1912 in Versailles and is buried there in the Cimetière des Gonards.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
  2. ^ Jacques Le Rider. Malwida von Meysenbug (1816-1903). Une Européenne du XIXe siècle. 2005
  3. ISBN 9781443820103
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  4. ^ Public Domain Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Monod, Gabriel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 975.

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