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HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL (1821-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 855 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRI See also:FREDERIC See also:AMIEL (1821-1881)  , Swiss philosopher and critic, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 27th of See also:September 1821 . He was descended from a Huguenot See also:family driven to See also:Switzerland by the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes . Losing his parents at an See also:early See also:age, he travelled widely, became intimate with the intellectual leaders of See also:Europe and made a See also:special study of See also:German See also:philosophy in See also:Berlin . In 1849 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:aesthetics at the See also:academy of Geneva, and in 1854 became professor of moral philosophy . These appointments, conferred by the democratic party, deprived him of the support of the aristocratic party; which comprised nearly all the culture of the See also:city . This See also:isolation inspired the one See also:book by which Amid lives, the See also:Journal Intime, which, published after his See also:death, obtained a See also:European reputation . It was translated into See also:English by Mrs See also:Humphry See also:Ward . Although second-See also:rate as regards productive See also:power, See also:Amiel's mind was of no inferior quality, and his journal gained a sympathy which the author had failed to obtain in his See also:life . In addition to the Journal, he produced several volumes of See also:poetry and wrote studies on See also:Erasmus, Madame de See also:Stael and other writers . He died in Geneva on the 11th of See also:March 1881 . His See also:chief poetical See also:works are Grains de mil, Il penseroso, See also:Part du See also:reeve, See also:Les Etrangeres, See also:Charles le Temeraire, Romancero historique, Jour a jour . See Life of Amiel by Mdlle Berthe Vadier (See also:Paris, 1885) ; See also:Paul See also:Bourget, Nouveaux essais (Paris, 1885) ; E .

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Scherer, introd. to the Journal and in Etudes sur la lilt. contemp . (vol. viii.) .

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