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JEAN JACQUES AMPERE (1800-1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 879 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN JACQUES See also:AMPERE (1800-1864)  , See also:French philologist and See also:man of letters, only son of See also:Andre See also:Marie See also:Ampere, was See also:born at See also:Lyons on the 12th of See also:August 1800 . He studied the folk-songs and popular See also:poetry of the Scandinavian countries in an extended tour in See also:northern See also:Europe . Returning to See also:France, he delivered in 183o a See also:series of lectures on Scandinavian and See also:early See also:German poetry at the See also:Athenaeum in See also:Marseilles . The first of these was printed as De l'Histoire de la poesie (1830) , and was practically the first introduction of the French public to the Scandinavian and German epics . In See also:Paris he taught at the See also:Sorbonne, and became See also:professor of the See also:history of French literature at the See also:College de France . A See also:journey in northern See also:Africa (1841) was followed by a tour in See also:Greece and See also:Italy, in See also:company with Prosper See also:Merimee and others . This See also:bore See also:fruit in his Voyage dantesque (printed in his Grece, See also:Rome et See also:Dante, 1848), which did much to popularize the study of Dante in France . In 1848 he be ame a member of the French See also:Academy, and in 1851 he visited See also:America . From this See also:time he was occupied with his See also:chief See also:work, L'Histoire romaine a Rome (4 vols., 1861-1864), until his See also:death at See also:Pau on the 27th of See also:March 1864 . The Correspondance et souvenirs (2 vols.) of A . M. and J . J .

Ampere (1805–1854) was published in 1875 . Notices of J . J . Ampere are to be found in Sainte-Beuve's Portraits litteraires, vol. iv., and Nouveaux Lundis, vol. xiii.; and in P . Merimee's Portraits historiques et litteraires (2nd ed., 18i5) .

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