Désiré Nisard

Désiré Nisard ( born March 20, 1806 Châtillon -sur -Seine, † March 25, 1888 in Sanremo ) was a French literary historian.

Nisard 1836 Head of the Secretariat in the Ministry of Public Instruction ( chef du secrétariat au ministère de l' Instruction publique ) and 1836, maître Legal Adviser in the conseil d' État. 1843 professor of eloquence at the Collège de France in Paris and since 1857 was also the director of the École Normale Supérieure, until he was in 1867 appointed Senator. In 1850 he became a member of the Académie française ( seat 39 ), and 1856 Commander of the Legion of Honour. His brother Charles Nisard was also an important literary historian.

Works

• Études et de critique de moeurs sur les poètes latins de la decadence (1834 )
• Mélanges (1839 )
• Histoire de la littérature francaise (1844-1861)
• Renaissance et reforme: Érasme, Thomas More, Melanchthon (1877 )
• Études de critique littéraire (1858 )
• Études d' histoire et de litterature (1859-1864)
• Mélanges d' histoire et de littérature (1868 )
• Les quatre grands historier latins (1875 )
• Portraits et études d' histoire littéraire (1874 )
• Précis de l' histoire de la littérature francaise (1878 )
• Nouveaux mélanges (1886 )
• Uvenirs et notes biographiques