Hippolyte Taine
1828 – 1893 · aged 65
French literary critic and historian (1828-1893)
- Born
- 21 Apr 1828 · Vouziers
- Died
- 5 Mar 1893 · rue Cassette
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- 21 Apr 1828BornBorn in Vouziers
- 1847AwardConcours général
- 1866AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour
- 1871AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Oxford
- 1878 – 1893RoleMember of the Académie française
- 5 Mar 1893DiedDied in rue Cassette
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- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
Biography
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.
Taine had a profound effect on French literature; Maurice Baring wrote in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica that "the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's." Out of the trauma of 1871, Taine has been said by one scholar to have "forged the architectural structure of modern French right-wing historiography."
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