Albert Mathiez

Albert Mathiez ( born January 10, 1874 in La Bruyère, Haute -Saône, † February 26, 1932 in Paris) was a French historian socialist. With his work on the French Revolution and the founder of the Société des études robespierristes he is one of the central figures of the French Revolution historiography.

After his military service, he studied from 1894 at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure. Already during his studies he considered himself a socialist. He specialized in the history of the Revolution.

At the suggestion of his teacher Alphonse Aulard he first turned to the religious history of the revolution. In 1907 he performed with the founding of the Société des études robespierristes the break with his teacher Aulard that published by the Society journal Les Annales révolutionnaires ( 1923: Annales historiques de la Révolution française ) was in direct competition with La Révolution française Aulards. He was editor until 1932.

1911 Mathiez was appointed to a professorship in Besançon, which he left in 1919 in favor of a new professorship in Dijon. Mathiez in its content, as institutionally sustainable shaped the historiography of the French Revolution.

Works (selection)

  • La Théophilanthropie et le culte décadaire sous le Directoire. 1904
  • Les origines of cultes révolutionnaires. 1904
  • Contributions à l' histoire religieuse de la Révolution française. 1906
  • La Révolution et l' Église. 1910
  • Rome et le français sous la clergé Constituent Assembly. 1911
  • La Vie chère et le mouvement social sous la Terreur. Paris: Armand Colin, 1927
  • Girondins et Montagnards. 1930 ( reprint 1988)
  • Le 10 août. Paris: Gallimard, 1931
  • Voyages en France en 1787, 1788 et 1789 / Arthur Young; première traduction complète et critique par Henri Sée, ... Paris: Armand Colin, 1931
  • La Révolution française ( jusqu'au 9 Thermidor ) ( 3 volumes), Paris: Armand Colin, 1922-1924. A translated into German version was published under the name The French Revolution in Books Gutenberg Zurich ( Volume 1 and 2 1940, Volume 3 1950), a further support to the European publishing house, Hamburg 1950
  • Études sur la Révolution française. 1954
  • Études sur Robespierre. Paris, 1958
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