Pierri Zind

Pierre Zind , born the May 19th 1923 with Wintzenheim, and died with Mendès (Brazil) the March 19th 1988, was a brother teaching Marist, in religion Frère Louis-Laurent. Passed with Alsatian separatism it changed its first name for that of Pierri, diminutive dialectal of Pierre.

Early vocation, it made profession as of the 17 years age then, as from 1946, carried out face teaching and academic works, becoming arts doctor in 1969 with a thesis on the institutes of teaching brothers in first half of the 19th century. The following year it obtained, with the Université of Lyon III, a pulpit of Sciences of education.

However, passed with the Alsatian independantism, he was worried especially about policy, adhering in 1971 to the Elsass-Lothringische federalistiche Bewegung of Dr. Iffrig. After a Short history of Alsace (1977), appeared its most important book Elsass-Lothringen: a prohibited nation (1870-1940) , delivers thick, filled of important documents and which, because of its character violently antifrançais, was accommodated with a certain favor by the intellectual mediums. In 1982, it made in Mulhouse an intervention noticed in favor of the “Black Loups”,

It contributed to the review the New Voice of Alsace-Lorraine , monthly Alsatian separatist and with the bulletin Devenir European founded by old the S French Yves Jeanne in which also Goulven Pennaod collaborated.

In 1985, it agreed to take part in the jury of Nantes which decreed a mention “Very Well” with the thesis Révisionniste of Henri Roques. In front of the scandal it was then constrained “to take advantage of its rights to the retirement” and died less than three years later.

Principal works:

  • new congregations of teaching Brothers in France of 1800 to 1830 (3 volumes, Saint-Genis-Laval 1969)
  • religious Teaching in the public Primary Education in France of 1850 to 1873 (Center of History of Catholicism, Lyon 1971)
  • Short History of Alsace (Albatross, Paris 1977)
  • Alsace-Lorraine, Elsass-Lothringen, a prohibited nation 1870-1940 (Copernic, Paris 1979)

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