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See also:ANTOINE See also:FREDERIC See also:OZANAM (1813-1853) , See also:French See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Milan on the 23rd of See also:April 1813 . His See also:family, which was of Jewish extraction, had been settled in the Lyonnais for many centuries, and had reached distinction in the third See also:generation before See also:Frederic through Jacques See also:Ozanam (164o-1717), an eminent mathematician . Ozanam's See also:father, See also:Antoine, served in the armies of the See also:republic, but betook himself, on the See also:advent of the See also:empire, to See also:trade, teaching, and finally See also:medicine . The boy was brought up at See also:Lyons and was strongly influenced by one of his masters, the See also:Abbe Noirot . His conservative and religious instincts showed themselves See also:early, and he published a pamphlet against See also:Saint-Simonianism in 1831, which attracted the attentionof Lamartine . In the following See also:year he was sent to study See also:law at See also:Paris, where he See also:fell in with the See also:Ampere family, and through them with See also:Chateaubriand, See also:Lacordaire, See also:Montalembert; and other leaders of the neo-See also:Catholic See also:movement . Whilst still a student he took up journalism and contributed considerably to See also:Bailly's See also:Tribune catholique, which became (See also:November 1, 1833) L'univers . In See also:conjunction with other See also:young men he founded in May 1833 the celebrated charitable society of St See also:Vincent de See also:Paul, which numbered before his See also:death upwards of two thousand members . He received the degree of See also:doctor of law in 1836, and in 1838 that of doctor of letters with a thesis on See also:Dante, which was the beginning of one of his best-known books . A year later he was appointed to a professorship of commercial law at Lyons, and in 184o assistant See also:professor of See also:foreign literature at the See also:Sorbonne . He married in See also:June 1841, and visited See also:Italy on his See also:wedding tour . At See also:Fauriel's death in 1844 he succeeded to the full professorship of foreign literature .
The shcrt See also:remainder of his See also:life was extremely busy with his professorial duties, his extensive See also:literary occupations, and the See also:work, which he still continued, of See also:district-visiting as a member of the society of St Vincent de Paul
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During the revolution of 1848, of which he took an unduly sanguine view, he once more turned journalist for a See also:short See also:time in the Ere nouvelle and other papers
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He travelled extensively, and was in See also:England at the time of the See also:Exhibition of 1851
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His naturally weak constitution fell a See also:prey to See also:consumption, which he hoped to cure by visiting Italy, but he died on his return at See also:Marseilles on the 8th of See also:September 1853
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Ozanam was the leading See also:historical and literary critic in the neo-Catholic movement in See also:France during the first See also:half of the 19th See also:century
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He was more learned, more sincere, and more logical than Chateaubriand; less of a See also:political See also:partisan and less of a literary sentimentalist than Montalembert
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In contemporary movements he was an See also:earnest and conscientious See also:advocate of Catholic See also:democracy and See also:socialism and of the view that the See also: C . Glyn as gistory of See also:Civilization in the Fifth Century (See also:London, 1868) ; Documents inedits pour servir d l'histoire de l'Italie depuis le VIII'n, siecle jusqu'au XI.Pme (Paris, 1850); See also:Les poetes franciscains en Italie au XIIIe+ne siecle (Paris, 1852) . His letters have been partially translated into English by A . Coates (London, 1886) . There are French lives of Ozanam by his See also:brother, C . A . Ozanam (Paris, 1882) ; Mme . E . See also:Humbert (Paris, 188o); C . Huit (Paris, 1882) ; M. de Lambel (Paris, 1887) ; L . Curnier (Paris, 1888) ; and B . Faulquier (Paris, 1903) . See also:German lives by F . X . Karker (See also:Paderborn, 1867) and E . See also:Hardy (See also:Mainz, 1878) ; and an interesting English See also:biography by See also:Miss K . O'Meara (See also:Edinburgh, 1867; 2nd ed., London, 1878) . (C . H . |
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