Charles Seignobos

Charles Seignobos (1854 - 1942) is a Historien French, specialist in the IIIe République.

Biography

Born in 1854 with Lamastre in Ardeche, he is the son of Charles-Andre Seignobos, deputy and mayor of Privas of 1871 with 1894, of republican family Protesting E and . He passes the baccalaureat to Tournon in 1871. After brilliant studies with the National university, where it follows the courses of Fustel de Coulanges and Ernest Lavisse, it finishes first with the aggregation of Histoire.

It then leaves to study two years in Germany. It settles some time with Göttingen, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig. Named Lecturer to the University of Dijon in 1879 like professor at the schools HEI-HEP, it supports its thesis of Doctorat in 1881, then is named with the Sorbonne.

It succeeds his father with the Mairie of Lamastre. He dies in April 1942, after being placed under house arrest with Ploubazlanec in Brittany.

Regarded with Charles-Victor Langlois as one of the leaders of the Positivism in history, Seignobos is the author of many works of political Histoire applying the German historical method and profiting from its excellent level German Linguistique in and English for the information retrieval. It is one of the major actors of the methodical history, which rests on the critical reading of the handwritten sources.

Quotation

  • the historian is in the position of a physicist who does not know the facts that by the report of an ignorant laboratory assistant and perhaps liar.

Extract of Seignobos in historical Method applied to sciences morals .

Works

  • 1892 : narrative and descriptive History of old Greece .

  • 1897 : political History of contemporary Europe .
  • contemporary French history , in collaboration with Ernest Lavisse.
  • 1897 : Introduction to the historical studies , in collaboration with Charles-Victor Langlois, rééd. 1992.
  • 1901: historical Method applied to science social , Alcan.
  • 1934 : Studies of policy and history , PUF.
  • 1937 : sincere History of the French Nation .
  • 1938 : A tentative a compared History of the people of Europe .

Sources

  • Bizière J.M. and Vayssiere P., History and historians , Hatchet, Paris, 1995.
  • Yves Morel, Charles Seignobos in front of his contradictors. Analyzes French intellectual controversy of the beginning of the 20th century on the history , ANRT, 1998, ISBN 2284016413.
  • Antoine Prost, “Charles revisited Seignobos”, Twentieth century , n.43, July-September 1994, pp.100-118

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • http://histoireenprimaire.club.fr/ressources/simonis1.htm extracted from Introduction to the historical studies , Paris, 1898, rééd., Paris, Kymé, 1992, Liv.I, chap I, " the history is done with sources".

  • http://www.museeprotestant.org/Pages/Notices.php?scatid=149¬iceid=715&lev=1 Biography and " organizer of the history méthodique".
  • http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17720 Remote loading of History Off Ancient Civilization of Seignobos free.

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