Charles-François Dupuis

Charles François Dupuis ( born October 16, 1742 in Trye -Château, Oise, † September 29, 1809 in Is sur Til ) was a French scholar.

Life

Dupuis was the son of a village schoolmaster. Added by using the Duke de la Rochefoucauld in the Collège d' Harcourt, he was already in 1766 a professor of rhetoric at the Collège de Lisieux in Paris, then turned under Lalande impact of astronomy and excited by his Mémoire sur l' origine et constellations of sur l' explication de la fable par le moyen de l' astronomy (1871 ), in which he interpreted the myths and religions as astronomical and physical allegories, general attention. He received thereon in 1787 the chair of Latin eloquence at the Collège de France. Frederick the Great heard of him and offered him a job as a secretary in 1786, but the king died the same year before Depuis could start its journey to Berlin. 1788 Depuis member of the Academy of Inscriptions ( Académie des inscriptions et belles - lettres ) and during the French Revolution deputed to the Convention, was then in the Council of Five Hundred, finally, in the Legislative Body (up to 1802), whose president he even after 18th Brumaire (9 November 1799) was. In April 1806 he was inducted into the Legion of Honor, 1809, he died on his estate at Dijon.

His highly anticipated, made ​​the party thing masterpiece L' origine de tous les cultes, ou la religion universal (Paris 1795, three volumes in quarto or ten volumes in octavo, with Atlas, new ed 1835-1837 ), extended and deepened the teaching of the Mémoire of 1781; an excerpt ( first 1796) has undergone numerous editions. The same trend followed Dissertation sur le zodiaque de Tentyra ou Denderah (1802 ) and Mémoire explicatif you zodiaque chronologique et mythologique (1806 ).

Works

  • Mémoire sur l' origine of the constellations et sur ​​l' explication de la fable par le moyen de l' astronomy (1781 )
  • L' origine de tous les cultes, ou la religion universal (1794 )
  • Dissertation sur le zodiaque de Tentyra ou Denderah (1802 )
  • Mémoire du explicatif zodiaque chronologique et mythologique (1806 )

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  • Scientist
  • Member of the Legion of Honour ( Knight )
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1742
  • Died in 1809
  • Man
  • Member of National Convention
  • Member of the Council of Five Hundred
  • Législatif member of the Corps
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