Joseph Marie Quérard

Joseph Marie Quérard ( born December 25, 1797 † December 3, 1865 ) was a French bibliographer.

Life and work

Born in Rennes, he became a bookseller. As a sales representative, he lived from 1819 to 1824 in Vienna, where he was also the first volumes of his great work La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire des savants bibliographique, historiens, et gens de lettres de la France, & c. ( 14 volumes, 1826-1842 ) chronicled, which deals specifically with the 18th and early 19th century. He completed in 1830 after the state participation, mediated by Guizot and the help of the Russian bibliophile Serge Poltoratzky ( 1803-1884 ) made ​​this possible this work. The issuing company of Didot took without his participation Littérature française contemporaine from the work with which he wanted to accomplish this and placed this in Ch Louandre and F. Bourquelot. Quérard retaliated by he corrected the mistakes of his successor. Despite its merits did not succeed Quérard to secure a job in a public library. He died in Paris.

Other works are: Les super cherie littéraires dévoilées (5 volumes, 1845-56 ); Bibliography La Menaisienne (1849 ); Dictionnaire des ouvrages - polyonymes et littérature française de la anonymous, 1700-1850 ( 1846-47 ); a supplementary band La France littéraire called Écrivains pseudonymes, etc. ( 1854-56 ).