Jean Alexandre Buchon | |
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| Born | (1791-05-21)May 21, 1791 |
| Died | August 29, 1849(1849-08-29) (aged 58) |
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| Discipline | History |
Jean Alexandre Buchon (21 May 1791 – 29 August 1849) was a French scholar born atMenetou-Salon (Cher).[1]
Buchon was an ardentLiberal and took an active part in party struggles under theRestoration, while throwing himself into the historical regeneration then taking place.[2]
During 1822 and the succeeding years he travelled about Europe in search of materials for hisCollection des chroniques nationales françaises écrites en langue vulgaire, du XIe au XVIe siècle (4 vols, 1824–1829).
After therevolution of 1830 he founded thePantheon littéraire, in which he published aChoix d'ouvrages mystiques (1843), aChoix de monuments primitifs de l'église chrêtienne (1837), aChoix des historiens grecs (1837), a collection ofChroniques trangres relatives aux expeditions françaises pendant le XIII siècle (1840), and, most important of all, aChoix de chroniques et mémoires sur l'histoire de France (1836–1841).[3]
His travels in southernItaly and in the East had put him upon the track of the medieval French settlements in those regions, and to this subject he devoted several important works:
None of his publications can be described as thoroughly scholarly but they have been of great service to history, and those concerning the East have a special value of original research.[3]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Buchon, Jean Alexandre".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 719–720.| International | |
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