Georges Hérelle
Georges Hérelle (27 August 1848 – 15 December 1935), was a French translator, ethnographer and professor of philosophy.[1]
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Biography
Georges Hérelle was born in Pougy-sur-Aube. He studied in Troyes where his father was a teacher, then in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. After obtaining a degree in philosophy in Dijon in 1871 , he was appointed professor in various high schools in Normandy,[2] then in Bayonne from 1896 until his retirement in 1903. At the same time, he worked with great erudition on the history of Champagne and on the history of homosexuality.
Once appointed to Bayonne, he studied Basque folklore and in particular the "pastorals", on which he wrote important works of compilation and analysis. He was also a great translator of Italian writers, notably D'Annunzio (with whom he had a friendly relationship), Grazia Deledda, Antonio Fogazzaro and Matilde Serao. He also translated Portuguese and Spanish authors such as Blasco Ibáñez. He was friend of Henri Bouchot and Paul Bourget, with whom he maintained correspondence, as well as with André Gide.[3] He maintained sometimes difficult relations with the bascologist Edward Spencer Dodgson.[4]
Works
- Louis XVII en Champagne (an VI-an X): d'après les documents originaux (1878; concerns the suitor Jean-Marie Hervagault)
- Notice sur la création de l'échevinage de Vitry-le-François d'après des documents inédits (1882)
- La Réforme et la Ligue en Champagne (1887–1892; 2 volumes)
- Documents inédits sur le protestantisme à Vitry-le-François, Épense, Heilitz-le-Maurupt, Nettancourt et Vassy depuis la fin des Guerres de Religion jusqu'à la Révolution française (1903–1908; 3 volumes)
- La musique et la danse au théâtre basque (1912)
- Les Pastorales basques: notice, catalogue des manuscrits et questionnaire (1903)
- Catalogue sommaire de toutes les « pastorales » connus à ce jour, Imprimerie nationale (1922)
- Le Répertoire du théâtre tragique : Catalogue analytique. Etudes sur le théâtre basque (1928)
- Histoire de l'amour grec dans l'antiquité, par M.-H.-E. Meier, augmentée d'un choix de document originaux et de plusieurs dissertations complémentaires[5] (1930; under the pen name L.-R. De Pogey-Castries[6]; 1952; 1980)
- Nouvelles études sur l’amour grec (unpublished, manuscripts kept by the Municipal Library of Troyes)
Notes
- ↑ Omont, Henri (1936-1937). "Georges Hérelle," Bulletin philologique et historique jusqu'à 1715, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (Paris), pp. ix–x.
- ↑ He was a professor of letters in Dieppe, Cherbourg and Évreux but also in Vitry-le-François in Champagne.
- ↑ Lejeune, Philippe (1987). "Autobiographie et homosexualité en France au xixe siècle," Romantisme, No. 56, pp. 79–94.
- ↑ Dodgson, Edward Spencer (1899–1911). "Correspondance de Dodgson avec Georges Hérelle," Gordailu.bilketa.eus.
- ↑ A translation of Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier's 1837 encyclopedia entry "Päderastie" (Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, 1837), with addendum.
- ↑ The explanation of the pseudonym, given by Hérelle in his Troyes manuscripts, is the inversion from RL (Hérelle), Pogey-Castries referring to his birthplace, Pougy-le-Château.
