Zoé Oldenbourg

Zoé Oldenburg (Russian Зоя Сергеевна Ольденбург, soy Sergejewna Oldenburg; * 18 Märzjul / March 31 1916greg in Petrograd. . † November 8, 2002 in Boulogne- Billancourt ) was a painter, historian and writer.

Life

Oldenburg was descended from the noble family of Oldenburg. Sergei Fedorovich Oldenburg Her grandfather (1863-1934) was a Russian State Council, Minister and Professor of Oriental Studies and Indology at the University of Saint Petersburg. Her parents were the journalist and historian Sergei Oldenburg (1888-1940) and the mathematician Ada Starynkewitsch. 1925 emigrated her family, she had four younger siblings, to Paris.

Oldenburg studied at the Lycée Molière and became a French historian specializing in medieval French history, in particular the Crusades and the Cathar. As a writer, she sat down and thematically deals with historical subjects. In Germany particularly successful was her book, Catherine the Great, which went through eight editions. For her work La Pierre angulaire it was in 1953 awarded the French Prix Femina. Later, she was member of the jury of the Prix Femina. In her youth, she also tried his hand as a painter.

In 1948 she married with Heinric Idalovici, with whom she had two children.

Works

• Argile et Cendres ( 1946).

• La Pierre angulaire ( 1953).

• Réveillés de la vie (1956).
• Les irréductibles (1958).
• Le Bûcher de Montsegur (1959).
• Les Brûlés ( 1960).
• Les Cités Charnelles ( 1961).
• Les Croisades (1965 )

• Catherine de Russie (1966 )

• La Joie des pauvres (1970).
• Saint Bernard ( 1970).
• Que vous a fait donc Israël? (1974).
• Visages d'un auto portrait (1977).
• La Joie - souffrance (1980).
• Le Procès you rêve (1982).
• L' Évêque et la vieille dame, ou la belle- mère de Peytavi Borsier (1983).
• Que nous est Hécube? (1984).
• Les amours égarées (1987).
• Déguisements (1989).
• Eleanor (1992 )