Edmond Scherer

Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer (Paris, the April 8th 1815 - Versailles, the March 16th 1889) was a literary critic, French theologist and politician.

Life

After studies of right, it obtained a license of theology to Strasbourg, and became Pasteur. In 1843, it was named professor at the evangelic School of Geneva, but its point of view on Protestant theology evolving/moving in favor of the liberal movement, it resigned six years later, and thereafter moved away little by little from Protestantism.

It settled with Paris, where it was pointed out by its talents of critics arts person, and in particular contributed to make known many foreign great writers in the Revue of the Two Worlds. Elected official city council man of Versailles in 1870, then appointed with the National Assembly for the department of Seine-et-Oise in 1871, it is named Senator with life in 1875, and supports the republican camp.

At the end of its life, it was devoted mainly to literary criticism and journalism, contributing in particular to the Temps . It often went to England, and was interested much in the political life and literary British.

Works

  • Edmond Schérer: Studies on the contemporary literature. 8 volumes. Paris 1863 - 1895.

  • Edmond Schérer: Critical studies of literature. Paris 1876.

Literatures

  • Ludwig Adolf Spach: Zur Geschichte DER modernen französischen Literatur. Straßburg 1877.

  • Gréard Octave: Edmond Scherer. Paris 1890.

  • Gaston Frommel: Contemporary drafts. Parcelled out Pierre, Henri-Frederic Amiel, Charles Secrétan, Paul Le Bourget, Edmond Schérer. Lausanne (Swiss) 1891.

  • Edouard Rod: The ideas morals of time present. Bookstore Didier Perrin. Paris 1891. p. 153 - 175.

  • Ernest Seilliere: Romanticism and romantic democracy. Critical of the work of Edmond Schérer. Paris 1930.

  • Kurt Glaser: Edmond Scherer und die französische Sprache. In: Festschrift für Ernst Tappolet. Basel (Schweiz) 1935. S. 96 - 110.

  • Samuel Berthoud: The doubt and faith. Edmond Scherer, Henri-Frederic Amiel, Felix Bovet. Neuchâtel (Swiss) 1952.

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