Auguste Molinier | |
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| Born | 30 September 1851 Toulouse |
| Died | 19 May 1904(1904-05-19) (aged 52) Toulouse |
| Occupation | Historian |
Auguste Molinier (30 September 1851 – 19 May 1904) was a French historian.
Born inToulouse, Auguste Molinier was a student at theÉcole Nationale des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at theÉcole pratique des hautes études; and he obtained appointments in the public libraries at theMazarine (1878), atFontainebleau (1884), and atSainte-Geneviève, of which he was nominated librarian in 1885.[1]
He was a goodpalaeographer and had a thorough knowledge of archives and manuscripts; and he soon achieved a high reputation among scholars of the history ofmedieval France. His thesis on leaving the École des Chartes was hisCatalogue des actes de Simon et d'Amauri de Montfort (inserted in vol. xxxiv of theBibliothèque de l'École des Chartes), an important contribution to the history of theAlbigenses. This marked him out as a capable editor for the new edition ofL'histoire générale de Languedoc byDom Vaissète: he superintended the reprinting of the text, adding notes on the feudal administration of this province from 900 to 1250, on the government ofAlphonse of Toulouse, brother ofSt Louis (1220–1271), and on the historical geography of the province ofLanguedoc in the Middle Ages.[1]
He also wrote aBibliographie du Languedoc, which was awarded a prize by theAcadémie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, but remained in manuscript. He also published several documents for theSociété de l'Orient Latin (Itinera hierosolymitana, in collaboration with Carolus Kohler, 1885); for theSociété de l'Histoire de France (Chronique normande du XIVe siècle, assisted by his brother Émile, 1883); for theCollection de textes relatifs à l'enseignement de l'histoire (Vie de Louis le Gros, by Suger, 1887); for theCollection des documents inédits (Correspondance administrative d'Alfonse de Poitiers, 1894–1900); for the Recueil des historiens de la France (Obituaires de la province de Sens 1904, 1906), etc., and several volumes in theRecueil des catalogues des bibliothèques publiques de France.[1]
Applying to the French classics the rigorous method used with regard to the texts of the Middle Ages, he published thePensées ofPascal, revised with the original manuscript (1887–1889), and theProvinciales (1891), edited with notes. In 1893 he was nominated professor at theÉcole des Chartes, and gave a successful series of lectures which he published (Manuel des sources de l'histoire de France au Moyen âge, 1902–1906). He also taught at theÉcole pratique des hautes études. He died after a short illness, leaving in manuscript a criticism on the sources of theSpeculum historiale ofVincent de Beauvais.[1]
His elder brother, Charles (born 1843), is also of some importance as an historian, particularly on the history of art and on the heresies of the Middle Ages. He was appointed professor of history at theuniversity of Toulouse in 1886.A younger brother,Émile (1857–1906), was keeper at theMusée du Louvre and a well-known connoisseur of art.[1]
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Molinier, Auguste".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 667.