Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert ( born May 7, 1754 Montignac, Périgord, † May 4, 1824 in Paris) was a French moralist and essayist.

Life

Joubert studied in Toulouse, jurisprudence, then classical studies. He attended a religious college in Toulouse, where he also later taught until 1776 since the age of 14. In 1778 he went to Paris, where he met, among others, Jean Baptiste le Rond d' Alembert and Denis Diderot and later concluded with the young writer and diplomat François -René de Chateaubriand friendship.

He lived alternately with his friends in Paris and retired to the countryside in Villeneuve -sur- Yonne. Joubert published his life, never anything but wrote a great many letters, and recorded on slips of paper and in small booklets thoughts about the nature of man, literature and other subjects; in a concise, often aphoristic form. After his death his widow confided to these notes Chateaubriand, who published in 1838 a selection titled Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert (Collected Thoughts of Mr. Joubert ). More complete editions followed: Pensées, Essais et maximes, in French published in 1842, German by Franz Pocci in 1851 in Munich. His correspondence was published.

Joubert's works have been widely translated into English, among others, by Paul Auster.

Expenditure

• Fritz Schalk, Hg and Übers: French moralists. Vol 2: Galiani, Prince de Ligne, Joubert. No. 45 collection Dieterich, 22 - 4 Neub. Ed Wiesbaden nd & Leipzig 1962
• Dsb. as Hg and Translator, The French moralists, Vol 2:. Galiani, Rivarol, Joubert, Jouffroy. dtv, Munich 1984, ISBN 3423060271