Charles Monnard

Charles Monnard ( born January 17, 1790 in Bern, † January 13, 1865 in Bonn) was a Swiss historian, politician, writer and university teacher. He was a champion of liberal and popular educator of French-speaking Switzerland.

Family

Charles Monnards mother was born in Bern, his father from Vaud. His father Pierre Monnard, which has been there a cafe owner, he lost at the age of 8 years. His mother Madeleine born Glaus was again married in second marriage with a Vaud. 1816 married Charles Monnard in Bonn originating from the German textile manufacturer Scheibler family from Scheibler Caroline, daughter of Johann Christian from Montjoie ( Monschau today, Eifel ).

Life

Early years

Born in Bern, the son of a woman married to a Bernese Vaud lander, Monnard dominated from childhood, both the German and the French language. In 1798 his father died. In 1804 he moved with his mother, who had married a Vaudois again in a second marriage, to Lausanne. There, the visit of the higher educational establishments it was made possible. Monnard attended high school in Lausanne and then studied theology at the Académie de Lausanne. During his school years in Lausanne in 1806 he was a founding member of the Société d' Étudiants de Belles Lettres.

Work in Lausanne

Later he lived as 1813-1816 as a private tutor in Paris and in 1816 professor of French literature at the Academy of Lausanne. From 1834 to 1836 and from 1839 to 1841 he was rector of the university. In 1824 he worked as a correspondent for the French daily newspaper " Le Globe" and worked from 1824 to 1833 as editor of the Vaud newspaper " Nouvel list Vaudois " and from 1840 to 1845 the liberal newspaper " Le Courrier suisse ".

Since 1828, he was a member and after the Liberal movement of 1830 in the years 1835, 1837 and 1843 repeated President of the Grand Council ( cantonal parliament ) and 1832-1838 federal Tagsatzung member of the Canton of Vaud. Because of its opinions for the teaching and worship in the polemical debate religion he was suspended in 1829 for a year of his teaching. After the victory of the Radicals, he was dismissed from his professorship in 1845 and was pastor in Montreux. He played in the conflict of the Vaudois clergy with the State Council, which led to the exit of many communities from the national church and the creation of a "free church," a starring role.

Background was the refusal of some pastors to read in the referendum on the Constitution, a proclamation of the new government, which had their punishment with suspension resulted. Then ranged 184 clergymen in their resignations and founded under the leadership Alexandre Vinet and Charles Monnards separate from the State National Free Church ( History of the Canton of Vaud # The establishment of the Église du libre évangélique Canton de Vaud ). Also Monnard resigned in November 1945 from solidarity with his colleagues at the parish office.

Professorship in Bonn

In December 1846 he took the chair offered to him by King Frederick William IV of Prussia in Romance languages ​​and literature at the University of Bonn.

Monnard translated "The Swiss country history for the Swiss people " by Heinrich Zschokke 1823 and the multi-volume works, the " Swiss Confederation Stories " by Johannes Muller from 1837 to 1840 into French. This gave him an outstanding importance among the Swiss historians, and it spread so that the national- historical movement of Switzerland, which were promoted by the German- Swiss historians Johannes von Müller and Heinrich Zschokke, in western Switzerland. His works fit into the context of Monnards liberal policy in the controversy this time, and he opposed the efforts of the old elites to re-establish.

From 1842 to 1851 he continued the work of Johannes Müller in 5 volumes in French under the title "Histoire de la Confédération Suisse " section. This Monnard rose liberty for a basic principle of Swiss history. Along with Alexandre Vinet, he entered therein and for the separation of church and state. He was on friendly terms with Alexis de Tocqueville.

Memberships and Honors

Monnard was a founding member of the Société d' Étudiants de Belles Lettres during his school days. He was also a founding member of the Société d' histoire de la Suisse Romande and member of the Helvetic Society, after they had been re-established in 1819.

In Lausanne, the " Rue Charles Monnard " named in the city after him.

Publications

  • History The Helvetic Revolution V1: The 1798 Until 1800 ( 1849). Kessinger Publishing 2010, ISBN 1-161-32997-8
  • Louis Vulliemin, Charles Monnard, Johannes von Müller: Histoire de la Confederation Suisse Volume 4-16, Nabu Press, 2010
  • Louis Vulliemin, Charles Monnard and Johann Jakob Hottinger: The Swiss Confederation stories 1 [-5. Theil, 1 Abth. ], Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 1-149-11112-7
  • De Gallorum Oratorio Ingenio, Rhetoribus Et Rhetoricae, Romanorum Tempore, Scholis. Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 1-147-47911-9
  • Notice Biographique Sur Le General Frédéric - César de La Harpe (1838 ). Kessinger Publishing, 2010, ISBN 1-162-39600-8
  • Chrestomathie Des Prosateurs Francaise You Quatorzime Au Siecle Seizime: Avec Une Grammaire Et Un Lexique de La Langue de Cette period ( textbook ) Kessinger Publishing, 2010, ISBN 1-141-29992-5
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