Charles Batteux

See also: Batteux

Charles Batteux , born close to Vouziers the May 6th 1713 and died in Paris the July 14th 1780, is a man of the church, scholar and polygraph French.

He teaches initially rhetoric and humanities, then he is titular pulpit of Greek and Latin philosophy to the Collège de France. He is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1754 and of the French Academy in 1761.

He is in particular the author of a series of dedicated works to esthetics: the Four Poetic ones of Aristote, of Horace, Emptied, of Despréaux , the Art schools reduced to the same principle , Cours of the humanities and Traité construction oratory . These last three books are later joined together in five volumes under the title Cours of the humanities , then republished in six volumes in 1824 under the title Principes shortened of the literature . Art must according to him imitate the Beautiful in nature.

In addition to translations of Horace and Aristote, Charles Batteux also published philosophical works, among which the Morals of Épicure drawn from its own writings and the Histoire from the main causes where it outlines a history of the Philosophie, as well as teaching works, including one Cours of studies to the use of the pupils of the military royal École which does not count less than 45 volumes.

External bonds

Biographical note of the French Academy
Biographical note of the '' Catholic Encyclopedia ''

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