Hippolyte Prévost

Hippolyte Prévost (1808, Toulouse - 1873, Paris) is the author of a method of Sténographie.

Biography

Hippolyte Prévost was born in Toulouse in 1808. At 17 years, he learns the written form shortened from Bertin in Sorbonne. Starting from 1830, it works as secretary writer with the Messager of the Rooms and with the Universal Moniteur , as a chief of the service in the oral processes. He becomes thereafter chief of the service of Tachigraphie of the Room.

Its work, the Nouveau Complete Handbook Writes shorthand or Art to continue the word to write , published in 1828, remains very close to Bertin.

The successive modifications that it introduced into the system are the fruit of the professional practice but it - actually - ever was not completely satisfied with the results. In its autobiography, he acknowledges that if he had to create another system, it would be more methodical and that work would be more symmetrical. He would work “with the freedom of an architect who builds a new building”.

The seventh edition of its treaty is published in 1867. Its method, from now on more complete and reasoned, tends to a teaching approach. It supplements it by means of superpositions, of reinforcements and incompatibilities. Most remarkable of its contribution is the table of simple, made up and various stops.

He dies in Paris in 1873. He was the professor and the friend of Albert Delaunay, which still improved the system thereafter.

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