Lucien Herr

Lucien Herr (1864, Altkirch - May 18th 1926) is a famous intellectual and pioneer of French socialism.

Biography

Entered at 65 years with the National university, it presented as of the end of its studies its candidature for the station of Bibliothécaire of the establishment, which it occupied until the end of his life. This emblematic function in the establishment tallies well with this man who passed very to have read, very retained and knew on each question, in each language, the last published work. It also made it profitable to defend its socialist ideas and the Human rights, in particular near the many pupils of which it guided research in the library.

Pacifist, he was also a specialist in the Germanic culture. He was very disappointed release of the conflict in 1914.

At the time of the Business Dreyfus, Herr retorts with Maurice Barrès and asserts his quality of “uprooted” (its family chooses to remain French after the annexation of 1871) and organizes the meeting of the intellectuals supporters of Dreyfus (Zola, Clemenceau, Jaurès, Lazare, Scheurer-Kestner and Péguy). It launches a petition in favor of the captain and becomes one of the founders of the Ligue of the human rights, to which there remained faithful until his death.

About 1889, it joined the “party possibilist”, the Federation of the Socialist Workers of Jean Allemane allured by his action the defense of the Republic in the middle of its action (vis-a-vis the Boulanger general in particular) and its claim of the General strike. It is him which “would have converted” Jean Jaurès with socialism.

He is cofounder in 1904 of the daily newspaper the Humanity, of which he finds the title, and supports by his intense work militant within the “Group of the socialist unit” which ends in April 1905 in the Congrès of the Earth and with the creation of SFIO. To the Congress of Turns in 1920, it contributes to the drafting of the speech of Leon Blum, ravaged by the division of a movement which it had to strongly contribute to link.

Paul Étard succeeded to him its post of librarian in 1926.

The funds of files Lucien Herr is consultable with the Files of modern history, attached to the Center of history of Sciences Po.

Quotations

“It was one of the Masters of our youth, certainly purest and burning. ” (Charles Péguy)
“In 1924, there was still a man: it was Lucien Herr. When one saw this giant leant on a hill of books, these eyes without fog with the foot of a bossué face, of a severe cliff of thoughts, when one heard his voice which never lied to state judgments which wanted only this end right: to return to each one what returns to him, one knew that it was not perilous of living in this crasseuse residence. ” (Paul Nizan, Aden Arabia )

See too

External bonds

Association for the Foundation Lucien Herr
Bibliography-homage of the Socialist party

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