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See also: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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It was translated into See also:English by Mrs See also:Humphry See also: See also:Scherer, introd. to the Journal and in Etudes sur la lilt. contemp . (vol. viii.) . |
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