Paul Hazard

Paul Hazard ( born April 30, 1878 in Noordpeene, † April 12, 1944 in Paris) was a French historian and essayist.

Life

Paul Hazard came from a family of teachers; his father and his grandfather were teachers in Noordpeene, in French Flanders. Paul attended the village school and earned his certificate d'études in Arnèke. At high school, from Armentieres, which now bears his name, he pursued classical studies. Standard Parts, Agrégé de lettres, he was professor at the Sorbonne in 1913 and 1925 held the chair of Modern and comparative literature at the Collège de France. Important works by him are La Crise de la conscience européenne. 1680-1715 ( The crisis of the European mind. 1680-1715 ) in 1935 and La Pensee européenne au XVIIIe siècle, de Montesquieu à Lessing ( The rule of reason. The European thought in the 18th century ) from the year 1946. To Member of the French Academy, he was elected in 1940. He died on April 12, 1944 in Paris shortly before the liberation.

Quote

" What is Europe? A thinking that is never satisfied. Without self-pity it pursues incessantly two tracks: the happiness and the truth that is even more indispensable to him, and still more at heart. As soon as it has reached a state that seems to respond to this twofold demand, it noted, knows that his unsteady hand stops just something temporary, something relative; and it begins the frantic search anew, which is his glory and his torment. "

Works

  • La Révolution française et les lettres italiennes, 1789-1815. Thèse presentee à la Faculté des lettres de Lyon ( 1910)
  • Journal de Ginguené 1807-1808. (1910 )
  • Giacomo Leopardi (1913 )
  • Un examen de conscience de l' Allemagne: d'après les papiers de prisonniers de guerre Allemands. Paris: Bloud et Gay, 1915
  • La ville envahie (1916 )
  • L'Italie vivante (1923 )
  • Histoire illustrée de la littérature française (avec Joseph Bédier, 2 vol. , 1923-24 )
  • Lamartine (1925 )
  • La Vie de Stendhal (1928 )
  • Avec Victor Hugo en exil (1930 )
  • Don Quixote de Cervantes: étude et analysis (1931 )
  • La Crise de la conscience européenne: 1680-1715 (1935 )
  • Le Visage de l' enfance (1938 )
  • Quatre études. Baudelaire. Romantiques. Sur un motorcycle poétique. L' Homme de sentiment (1940 )
  • La Pensee européenne au XVIIIe siècle, de Montesquieu à Lessing ( 1946).
  • Les livres, les enfants et les hommes (1949 )

German translations

  • The crisis of the European mind. From 1680 to 1715. Translated from the French by Harriet Wegener. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1939.
  • John Locke (1632-1704) and his age. Translated from the French by Harriet Wegener and Albert E. Brinckmann. Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe, 1947.
  • The rule of reason. The European thought in the 18th century. Translated from the French by Harriet Wegener and Karl Linnebach. Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe, 1949
  • Stendhal: how he lived, wrote and loved. Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe, 1950.
  • Children, books and great people. Preface by Erich Kästner. From the French by Harriet Wegener. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1952.
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