Xavier Marmier

Xavier Marmier (June 24th 1808 with Pontarlier - October 11th 1892 with Paris) is a French man of letters, traveller and translator of the European literatures of North.

After having been briefly librarian with Besancon, it leaves for Paris then voyage in Germany and contributes to the Germanic Revue like with other newspapers. It takes share then with several maritime forwardings in Iceland and Scandinavia. In 1839, he becomes professor of foreign literature to Rennes, but sets out again a few months later for the North pole.

Of return to Paris, it is named librarian with the ministry for the State education. He travels then to the Netherlands, in Finland, Russia and Poland, then with the the Middle East and in Algérie. In 1846, it becomes preserving then general administrator of the Bibliothèque Holy-Genevieve of Paris.

In 1848, it sets out again for the America of North and the South. Of all its voyages, it brings back accounts as well as writings on the literature, the history and the geography of the areas which it traverses. Its Canadian period was the subject of a study of Jean Ménard.

He is elected member of the French Academy in 1870 and is belonged to the commission of the Dictionnaire. Author not only of accounts of voyage but also of translations, poems and novels, Xavier Marmier especially contributed to make known in France the Scandinavian and Germanic literature.

Works

1830 : poetic Drafts
1833: Pierre, or continuations of ignorance
1833 - 1837: Choice of parabolas of Krummacher , 2 vol.
1837: Letters on Iceland
1838: Icelandic Language and literature
1838: History of Iceland since its discovery until our days
1839: History of the literature in Denmark and Sweden
1840: Letters on North: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Spitzberg , 2 vol.
1841: Travel souvenirs and traditions popular
1842: Popular songs of North
1842: Letters on Holland
1844: Poetries of a traveller
1844: Relation of the voyages of the scientific commission of North , 2 vol.
1845: New travel souvenirs in Franche-Comté
1847: Of the Rhine in the Nile , 2 vol.
1847: Letters on Algeria
1848: Letters on Russia, Finland and Poland , 2 vol.
1851: hearts in sorrow, tales of a traveller
1851: Letters on America , 2 vol.
1852: new travellers , 3 vol.
1854: Letters on the Adriatic and Montenegro , 2 vol.
1854: the snowdrops
1854: Of the Danube in the Caucasus
1856: a summer at the edge of the Baltic
1856: At the edge of Néva
1857: the four ages
1857: intimate dramas, Russian tales
1858: been engaged of Spitzberg
1858: the black forest
1858 - 1859: picturesque Voyage in Germany , 2 vol.
1859: In America and Europe
1860: Gazida
1860 : German Stories and Scandinavians
1861: Voyage in Switzerland
1862: Helene and Suzanne
1862: Voyages and literature
1863: In Alsace: the miserly one and its treasure
1864: In railroad
1864: New of the East and the West
1864: memories of an orphan
1864: the novel of a heir
1866: History of a poor musician
1867: Of the East in the West, voyages and literature
1868: dramas of the heart
1868: chances, tales of the life
1873: Impressions and memories of a Christian traveller
1873: Robert Bruce: how one reconquers a kingdom
1874: the United States and Canada. American accounts.
1874 : Three days of the life of a queen
1876: Life in the house
1876: In remote countries
1879: New accounts of voyages
1880: Antonia
1882 : Legends of the plants and the birds
1883: At the house. Studies and memories
1884: In Franche-Comté
1884: success by perseverance
1885: Passed and present.

1885: Accounts of voyage

1889: Through the tropics

1890: In the South and North

1890: Prose and towards

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