Gabriel Monod
Gabriel Monod ( born March 7, 1844 in Ingouville, Seine- Maritime, † April 10, 1912 in Versailles) was a French historian and medievalist.
He was the nephew of Adolphe Monod and had Alsatian about his mother ancestors. He went to Le Havre and Paris to school and studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure with the completion in 1865 and then in Göttingen and Berlin with Georg Waitz. After his return in 1868 he taught at the École pratique des hautes études history. In the German -Prussian War 1870/71 he organized with his cousins an ambulance that followed the front line. He later wrote memoirs about the war ( Allemands et Francais, 1871). He then taught at the Ecole pratique again ( until 1905 ) and also at the Ecole Normale Superieure ( 1880-1904 ).
He dealt with medieval history and gave here the Chronicles of Gregory of Tours, Marius of Avenches and Fredegar out.
In 1875 he founded with Gustave Fagniez the Revue historique.
In 1873 he married Olga heart, daughter of Alexander Herzen.
Writings
- Translation (with commentary ) by William Junghans: Histoire critique of règnes de Childeric et de Chlodovech, Paris: F. Vieweg, 1879
- Études critiques sur les sources de l' histoire carolingienne, Paris: E. Bouillon 1898 ( only the first volume was published )
- Études critiques sur les sources de l' histoire mérovingienne, Paris: A. Francke, 2 volumes, 1872, 1885 ( Volume 1: Grégoire de Tours et Marius d' Avenche, Volume 2: La Compilation dite de Frédégaire )
- Bibliography de l' histoire de France. Catalogue méthodique chronologique et des sources et à l' histoire of ouvrages relatifs depuis les origines de France jusqu'en 1789, Paris 1888, reprint Brussels: Culture et Civilisation 1968
- Les Maîtres de l' histoire: Ernest Renan, Hippolyte Taine, Jules Michelet, 1894
- Portraits et souvenirs (including Victor Hugo, Fustel de Coulanges, Victor Duruy ), 1897
- La vie et la pensée de Jules Michelet, 1798-1852, 2 vols, Paris: Champion 1923