Victor Cherbuliez
Victor Cherbuliez ( born July 19, 1829 in Geneva, Switzerland, † July 1, 1899 in Combs -la -Ville, Dept. Seine- et- Marne. ) Was a Swiss- French writer.
Life
Cherbuliez came from a Huguenot family that had fled after the Edict of Nantes in Switzerland. His father was Andrè Cherbuliez, a professor at the University of Geneva. His schooling completed Cherbuliez in his hometown, where he studied from 1847 to 1852 at the University mathematics.
Later he moved to the University of Bonn and at the University of Berlin. After his return to Geneva Cherbuliez was there for some time as a teacher and journalist.
His literary career began in the late 1850 's, when he published after a trip to the Orient in the Revue des Deux Mondes, the " Causeries athéniennes ". He then joined the staff of the Revue and published there, among others, in 1860 his first work, "Un cheval de Phidias ", 1863 " Le Comte Kostia " and 1864 " Paula Méré ".
1875 moved to Paris and Victor Cherbuliez received French citizenship in 1879. On December 18, 1881 he was appointed to the French Academy as successor to the late lawyer Jules Dufaure ( armchair 3); himself followed in 1900 by the writer Émile Faguet on this site.
To 1895 Cherbuliez withdrew from the public and settled in Combs- la -Ville. He died three weeks before his 70th birthday and found his final resting place in the Cimetière Montparnasse.
Cherbuliez published many of his works under the pseudonym G. Altenvalbert; they were first in newspapers and magazines such as the Revue des Deux Mondes, inter alia, to read. With his literary works, he was initially somewhat in the shadow of George Sand, but soon found his own unmistakable style.
Honors
Works (selection)
- L' Aventure de Ladislas Bolski. , 1869.
- Le comte Kostia. , 1863.
- La ferme de Choquard. In 1883.
- Meta Holdenig. In 1873.
- Prosper Randoce. 1868.
- Un cheval de Phidias. In 1860.
- Études de littérature et d'Art. , 1887.
- Profiles étranges. , 1889.