Jean-Jacques Amp

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Jean-Jacques Ampère (August 12th 1800 with Lyon - March 27th 1864 with Pau) is a historian, writer and traveller French.

Wire of the famous physicist Andre-Marie Amp, specialist in the the Middle Ages, Jean-Jacques Ampère belong to the circle of Mrs. Récamier. He is professor with the Collège de France, conservative of the Bibliothèque Mazarine, member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities (1842) and of the French Academy (1848).

He goes on a first journey in Orient in 1841 with Prosper Mérimée and two other friends, Jehan de Witte and Charles Lenormant: Naples, Malta, Syros, Athens, Éphèse, Magnesia, Sardinian, Smyrna then Constantinople and Rome on the way of the return. It is Ampère which tells the voyage in Greece, Rome and Dante: literary studies according to nature in 1848.

With its death, it bequeaths its papers and the little of fortune which it has in his friends, Casimir and Hortense Cheuvreux. In 1929, part of Ampère papers will be deposited with the Library of the Institute by the Marquise of Montebello, grand-daughter of the Cheuvreux.

Principal works

Of the history of poetry (1830);
Of the French literature in its relationship with the foreign literatures with the Middle Ages (1833);
Literature and voyages: Germany and Scandinavia (1833);
literary History of France before the 12th century (3 volumes) (1839);
History of the literature to the Middle Ages. Formation of the French language (3 volumes) (1841);
Ballanche (1849);
Greece, Rome and Dante: literary studies according to nature (1848);
Literature, voyages and poetries (2 volumes) (1848);
Roman history in Rome (4 volumes) (1856); historical
César, scenes (1859);
Walk in America (2 volumes) (1860);
science and letters in the East (1865);
Mixtures of history and literature (2 volumes) (1867);
Roman Empire in Rome (2 volumes) (1867);
Voyage in Egypt and Nubie (1868);
Christian or the Roman year (1887).

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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