Mathieu Auguste Geffroy

Mathieu Auguste Geffroy (* April 21, 1820 in Paris, † August 16 1895 in Bièvres ) was a French historian.

Geffroy attended the Collège Charlemagne, and from 1840 to 1843, the École normale supérieure. He then became a teacher of history. At the colleges in Dijon, Clermont and Collège Louis le Grand in Paris and in 1852 Professor of History at the Faculty in Bordeaux

In 1854 he undertook a scientific journey to Sweden. After the teacher at the higher normal school and appointed in 1872 professor of ancient history at the Faculty of Paris, and in place of Augustin Thierry had been elected member of the Academy in 1862 to 1874, he was awarded in 1875 the Directorate of the French School in Rome, which he held until initiated at the end 1882.

Works

  • Histoire des États scandinaves ( 1851)
  • Notices et extraits of manuscrits français en Suède et Danemark (1855 )
  • Gustave III et la cour de France (1867, 2 vols )
  • Rome et les barbares (1874 )
  • École française in Rome (1876 and 1884 )
  • Lettres de Charles XII inedites (1852 )
  • Correspondance secrète de Marie -Antoinette (along with Alfred d' Arneth, 1859)
  • Inedites Lettres de la Princesse Des Ursins (1859, Rome)
  • Études italiennes. Florence (La Renaissance ) ( 1898)
  • Historian
  • Member of the Accademia dei Lincei
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1820
  • Died in 1895
  • Man
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