Died 1893-03-05.
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Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 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 lit…
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culture · French critic, historian, and philosopher (1828–1893) · philosopher · historian · writer · art historian · literary critic · also Hippolyte Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, H. A. Taine, Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine, Ippolit Adolf Ten, Taine
Born 21 April 1828 · Died 5 March 1893 · Q297726
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1893· 1 entry
1891· 1 entry
“Napoleon's Views of Religion”
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1885· 1 entry
While visiting the Hospital de la Salpêtrière, Taine and Joseph Delboeuf attended a session of hypnotism in which Jean-Martin Charcot induced vesications (blistering) by suggestion
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1878· 2 entries
Was elected member of the Académie Française by 20 out of the 26 voters
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Career landmark: seat 25 of the Académie française (1878–1893).
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1871· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford (1871).
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“forged the architectural structure of modern French right-wing historiography.”
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1868· 1 entry
Married Thérèse Denuelle, daughter of Alexandre-Dominique Denuelle
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1866· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1866).
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1863· 1 entry
Published his History of English Literature in five volumes
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1855· 1 entry
After which he wrote his famous Voyage aux Pyrénées, and began contributing numerous philosophical, literary, and historical articles to the Revue des deux Mondes and the Journal des débats, two major newspapers at the t
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1853· 1 entry
Obtained a doctorate at the Sorbonne
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1847· 2 entries
Awarded Concours général (1847).
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Obtained two Baccalauréat degrees (Science and Philosophy) and received the honorary prize of the concours
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1841· 1 entry
Taine, then aged 13, lost his father and was sent to a boarding school in Paris, in the Institution Mathé, whose classes were conducted in the Collège Bourbon, located in the Batignolles district
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1828· 1 entry
Born 1828-04-21.
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