Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne

Théophile Malo Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne (* November 23, 1743 in Carhaix " on the territory of Aribogenen " Brittany, † June 28, 1800 in Oberhausen ( in Neuburg / Donau ), Bavaria ) was a French officer.

Life

He joined with 23 years in the army and fought among others in Spain. He sympathized with the American Revolution and was an enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution.

La Tour was appointed by Napoleon Bonaparte on April 27, 1800 for " Premier Grenadier de la Republique ". On the evening of June 28, 1800 he died at the Battle of Oberhausen during the attack Austrian rider with a spear and was buried here. In 1889 his body was exhumed and transferred to Paris in the Panthéon.

His memorial stone, set by the French on September 20, 1800, to visit with the inscription à la mémoire de LATOUR D' AUVERGNE Premier Grenadier de France on a hill in Oberhausen. On his actual place of death, the (former) Forest Centre Unterhausen, 1980, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the occasion of the 180th anniversary of the death Latour. His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the 18th column ( LTr DAUVERGNE ).

Works

De la Tour d' Auvergne was interested in exploring the Breton language and culture, issuing a book. He also published a work on the history of the Celts in France. The sources he used, among others, Strabo, Tacitus, Caesar, Pomponius Mela, but also the Edda and Breton oral traditions. From him, the terms " Dolmen " and " menhir ", which are still used for the description of megaliths come.

Publications

• Théophile Malo Corret de La Tour d' Auvergne, Origines gauloises, the celles plus anciens peuples de l'Europe dans leur vraie puisées source, ou Recherches sur la langue, l' origine et les antiquités the Celto - Breton de l' Armorica pour servir à histoire Ancienne et moderne de ce peuple et à celle des Francais. Hamburg / Paris 1801, Third Edition ()