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See also:MAURY, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:FERDINAND See also:ALFRED (1817–1892) , See also:French See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Meaux on the 23rd of See also:March 1817. In 1836, having completed his See also:education, he entered the Bibliotheque Nationale, and afterwards the Bibliotheque de 1'Institut (1844), where he devoted himself to the study of See also:archaeology, See also:ancient and See also:modern See also:languages, See also:medicine and See also:law. Gifted with a See also:great capacity for See also:work, a remarkable memory and an unbiassed and See also:critical mind, he produced without great effort a number of learned See also:pamphlets and books on the most varied subjects. He rendered great service to the See also:Academic See also:des See also:Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, of which he had been elected a member in 1857. See also:Napoleon III. employed him in See also:research work connected with the Histoire de Cesar, and he was rewarded, proportionately to his active, if modest, See also:part in this work, with the positions of librarian of the Tuileries (186o), See also:professor at the See also:College of See also:France (x862) and director-See also:general of the Archives (1868). It was not, however, to the imperial favour that he owed these high positions. He used his See also:influence for the See also:advancement of See also:science and higher education, and with See also:Victor See also:Duruy was one of the founders of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes. He died at See also:Paris four years after his retirement from the last See also:post, on the 11th of See also:February 1892.
Grke See also:antique, (3 vols.., 1857–1859) ; La Magie et l'astrologie clans l'antiquite et clans le moyen See also:age (1863) ; Histoire de l'ancienne academie des sciences (1864); Histoire de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (1865); a learned See also:paper on the reports of French archaeology, written on the occasion of the universal See also:exhibition (1867); a number of articles in the Encyclopedie moderne (1846–185r),inMichaud's Biographie universelle (1858 and seq.), in the See also:Journal des savants in the Revue des deux mondes (1873, 1877, 1879–1880, &c.). A detailed bibliography of his See also:works has been placed by Auguste Longnon at the beginning of the See also:volume See also:Les Croyances et legendes du moyen age.
End of Article: MAURY, LOUIS FERDINAND ALFRED (1817–1892)
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