Augustin Thierry
Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry ( born May 10, 1795 in Blois, † May 22, 1856 in Paris) was a French historian. He was one of the first to put the highest value on source work for his works and struck by a lively writing style. Thierry edited a large number of medieval sources. There was the legend that he was blind in the archive during the intensive study of the sources.
Life and work
Thierry went to Blois to school and studied from 1811 at the Ecole Normale Superieure. In 1813 he went briefly as a teacher ( professor ) to Compiegne. He was an avid supporter of Henri de Saint -Simon and became its secretary. Later he was a supporter of the July Revolution of 1830. He published 1817-1820 in Censeur européen sur l' histoire and 1820 Lettres de France. In his history he was influenced by romantic literature such as Les Martyrs by François -René de Chateaubriand, and the novels of Walter Scott, but also learned accurate source studies with Claude Charles Fauriel.
Augustin Thierry represented by François Guizot felt that the story was based on a series of class struggles. Karl Marx called Thierry " le père of the ' class struggle ' in French historiography ." In the thierryschen version of the class struggle fought the bourgeoisie, the descendants of the free before the Germanic immigration to France Celts, against the nobility, the descendants of the Frankish conquerors. In the French Revolution of 1789, according to Thierry (and others) liberated the citizens / Gauls of the nobles / Franken. This strange combination of ( bourgeois-liberal, non-Marxist ) class struggle with older mythical ideas about a Gallic prehistoric to their conditions, you returned freedom with the revolution and the recovery of the " Celtic ", dominated French historiography to the end of the 19th century similar ideas represented, among others Jules Michelet.
Similar to the history of France, he treated the Norman Conquest of England: Anglo-Saxon freedom was threatened by the Norman conquerors and eventually prevailed in the parliamentary system. The then well-received work required several years of intensive study of the sources and a year after the release he went blind partially, but continued his work with the help of secretaries continued.
In 1841 he received the first Grand Prix Gobert, he then received each year until his death.
Most recently, he was sickly and lost his wife in 1844. The Revolution of 1848 was an unwelcome shock to him and he turned more Catholic views on and softened in this respect its history of Norman Hand washed conquest of England in a rematch from.
He was the older brother of the historian and journalist Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry ( 1797-1873 ).
Writings
- L' Histoire de la conquête de l' Angleterre par les Normand, 3 volumes, 1825
- Lettres sur l' histoire de France. Paris, 1820, 1827
- Dix ans d' études historiques. Paris, 1834 ( Papers from the Censeur européen and Courrier français)
- Essai sur l' histoire de la formation et des progrès du tiers état, suivi de deux fragments you recueil des monuments de cette histoire inédits. Meline, Cans et Cie, 1853 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
- Récits the temps Mérovingiens, Precedes de l' histoire de France sur Considérations. 2 vols. Garnier, Paris 1840 ( first published in the Revue des Deux Mondes, German: .. Kings and queens of the Merovingian Hallwag, Bern 1938, translated by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer The same book also appeared under the title Tales of the Merovingian times, Manesseplatz, Zurich 1972. )
- Recueil des monuments de l' histoire du inédits Tiers Etat, 4 volumes, 1850-1870