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RAMBERT, EUGENE (1830-1886)

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RAMBERT, See also:EUGENE (1830-1886) , Swiss author, was See also:born at Sales near Swiss Clarens on the 6th of See also:April 1830, the eldest son of a Vaudois schoolmaster, from whom he received his See also:education. When in 1845 his See also:father lost his See also:post, owing to the religious disputes, Rambert became a teacher in See also:Paris, and later a See also:tutor in See also:England and at See also:Geneva. When the affairs of the See also:family improved, Rambert was able to pursue his studies for the See also:ministry, but he was more attracted by literature, and in 1845 became See also:professor of See also:French literature at the See also:academy of See also:Lausanne, and in 186o at the Federal See also:polytechnic school at See also:Zurich, where he remained till 1881, when he again became professor at Lausanne. His See also:principal See also:work, See also:Les Alpes suisses (5 vols., 1866—1875; republished with large additions, according to his own See also:scheme, in 6 vols., 1887—1889), is a mine of See also:miscellaneous See also:information on the subject. He also published several volumes of See also:poetry, as well as a See also:volume entitled Ecrivains nationaux (1874, republished 1889), and See also:biographies of the pietist See also:Vinet (1875), of the poet Juste See also:Olivier (1879) and of the artist See also:Alexandre Calame (1883). He died on the 21st of See also:November 1886. Rambert's Dernieres Poesies were edited (1903) by See also:Henri Warnery, whose Eugene Rambert (Lausanne, 189o) contains a See also:critical estimate. (W. A. B.

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