Jules Hermann

Born on November 1st 1845 and died in 1924, Jules Hermann was a Politician, a Scientifique and a Poète French of the island of the Réunion, in the Indian Ocean.

Political career

Notary with Saint-Pierre, the main city of the south, Jules Hermann conducts to it tireless campaigns in favor of the development and the illustration of this area. He actively supports for example the creation of a port in his city, of which he is the Maire in 1901 and 1902. He will thereafter be elected President of the General advice of the Meeting.

Scientific career

Jules Hermann is in addition president of the Academy of the Meeting starting from 1913. Equipped with a curious spirit, he addresses to the learned societies metropolis of the communications on the volcanic eruptions, the formation of the tropical cyclones, the diseases of the Caféier S or the stranding of the Baleine S. the Academy of Science of Paris finally indicates it as correspondent on the island.

Literary career

Jules Hermann in addition publishes nonscientific works on the most varied subjects:

the colonization of the island Bourbon , 1885 - 1886.
the foundation of the Saint-Pierre District it Bourdonnais , 1898.
Things of Saint-Pierre , 1903.
colonale Constitution project and financial autonomy , 1904.
the moral direction lowers , 1909.
Of discovered of the Captain Jean Bertho , 1909.
Guide of the traveller for the canton of Saint-Pierre , 1924.

Its major work remains however the Revelations of the Large Ocean published on a purely posthumous basis by the care of its widow in 1927 after a first attempt fallen through in 1900. While resting on geological observations , the work proposes a daydream on the existence of a primitive Continent called Lémurie. Cradle of all civilizations, it is absorbed after a cosmic catastrophe. Madagascar and the Mascareignes would be the last vestiges. Jules Hermann takes part thus in his manner with the assumption of a continental drift.

For the remainder, Jules Hermann sees in the High Meeting the traces left by extraordinary giant sculptors. He in addition sees in the Malgache the origin of all the languages, including the French and the Créole réunionnais. The myth lemur thus reverses the traditional prospect making for the southern islands the end of the world. The Mauritian Malcolm de Chazal will be among the first to prolong the work of Hermann by his own poetic constructions .

See too

Internal bonds

Paul Hermann, his cousin writer.

External bonds

“'' Jules Hermann. 1 {{er}} November 1845 - 1924 ''”, article of the Newspaper of the island of the Meeting .

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