Auguste Le Prévost

Auguste Le Prévost ( born June 3, 1787 Bernay, † July 14, 1859 in La Vaupalière (Seine- Maritime) ) was a French archaeologist and historian. Le Prévost and Arcisse de Caumont (1801-1873) are considered the founding fathers of the science of history in Normandy.

Life

1813 joined Le Prévost, founded in 1744 Académie des sciences, belles lettres, et arts de Rouen ( Academy of Science and Fine Arts ) at. In August 1814, he was appointed sub-prefect of Bernay. He retired as early as November 1815 from his office back and only devoted himself nor his studies on the Normandy. To this end, he learned various historical and modern languages ​​, English, Italian, German, Swedish, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek and Latin. He studied classical philology, toponymy, Geology, Botany, Ancient History and Archaeology. His knowledge was very extensive, but his special merit lay in the critical method of its operation.

1818 took the writer Charles Nodier ( 1780-1844 ), Isidore Taylor ( 1789-1879 ) and Alphonse de Cailleux a two-month journey through the Haute -Normandie, during which they material for their book series Voyages dans l' ancienne pittoresques et romantiques France ( " picturesque and romantic journeys through the old France " ) collected. In the Haute -Normandie arrived, Le Prévost was their leader. He led her around, told them everything and gave Nodier even his records. During this trip, a friendship between Nodier and Le Prévost was born. A lively exchange of letters between Le Prévost and writers joined them. The first book came in 1820, the second book out in 1825, both treated Normandy.

Le Prévost had for several years presided over the Learned Society Société centrale d'agriculture de la Seine- inférieure (Society of Agriculture in Seine- inférieure ) and the Société libre d'agriculture, sciences, arts et belles - lettres de l' Eure ( society for Agriculture and the Fine Arts in Eure). In 1825 he published his Discours sur la poésie romantique. In 1830 he went into politics and in 1831 the General Council of the Canton of Bernay. From 1834 to 1848 he was a deputy of the National Assembly. In 1838 he was elected as a "free member " to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, where he remained until his death. From 1838 to 1852 he published the Historiæ ecclesiasticæ libri tredecem of Orderic Vitalis in five volumes.

Le Prévost was a founding member of the Société des antiquaires de Normandie (Society of Antiquaries of Normandy ). Together with Arcisse de Caumont, Charles de Gerville (1769-1853) and Gervais de La Rue (1751-1835) he wrote seminal writings on architecture science. Le Prévost shared a post-Roman architecture of the Normandy in Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and modernity. His system was based on Thomas Rickman (1776-1841) classification of medieval English architecture.

His Mémoires et notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir à l' histoire du département de l'Eure, were not published until after his death in the years 1862 to 1869 by Louis Passy ( 1830-1913 ) and Léopold Delisle ( 1826-1910 ). A bust of Le Prévost was inaugurated in 1883 in Bernay, she is now in the Museum ibid. In the inner city, a street is named after him rue Auguste Leprevost.

Works

• Société des antiquaires de Normandie (ed.): Mémoire sur la collection de vases antiques trouvée, en mars 1830 à Berthouville. T. Chalopin, Caen 1832 ( Archive.org ).
• Anciennes territorial divisions de la Normandie. Crapelet, Paris 1839 ( Gallica ).
• Dictionnaire des anciens noms de lieu du département de l'Eure. Typography d' Ancelle fils, Évreux 1839 (Google Books).
• Notes pour servir à la topography et à l' histoire des communes du département de l'Eure au moyen age. Impr de A. Hérissey, Évreux 1849 ( Archive.org ).
• Léopold Delisle, Louis Paulin Passy (eds.): Mémoires et notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir à l' histoire du département de l'Eure. 1-3, Auguste Herissey, Évreux 1862-1869 ( gallica.bnf.fr archive.org ( Part 1) archive.org (Part 2) ).