Augustin Cochin (historian)

Augustin Cochin
Born Augustin Denis Marie Cochin
(1876-12-22)December 22, 1876
Paris, France
Died July 8, 1916(1916-07-08) (aged 39)
Maricourt, Somme
Nationality French

Augustin Cochin (22 December 1876 – 8 July 1916) was a French historian of the French Revolution.[1] Much of his work was posthumously published in an incomplete state after he was killed in action in World War I.[2]

Career overview

Born in Paris, Cochin was the son of Denys Cochin, a Parisian deputy in the National Assembly with ties to the Vatican, and the grandson of Augustin Cochin, a French politician and writer.[3] His Catholic upbringing helped him to remain detached from the French Revolution and study it historically in a new light.[4]

Cochin studied the Revolution from a sociological perspective, cultivated from his interest in the work of Émile Durkheim,[5] and he sought to look at the revolution from a social perspective.[6][7] François Furet believed that Cochin’s work worked towards an analysis of two objectives: “a sociology of the production and role of democratic ideology, and a sociology of political manipulation and machines.”[8] Cochin’s work deals with the revolution itself from a conceptual basis.[9]

Cochin was drafted into service in World War I in 1914, and he was wounded four times in service before being killed on 8 July 1916 at Maricourt, Somme.[10]

His sometime collaborator, Charles Charpentier, worked with Cochin’s family towards posthumous publication of his works.

See also

Major works

Works in english translation

References

  1. ↑ Lacombe, Bernard (1929). "Augustin Cochin, Historien de la Révolution," Le Correspondant, No. 101, pp. 822–826.
  2. ↑ Chassagne, Frédéric (1980). La Pensée d'Augustin Cochin. Mémoire, Université Panthéon-Assas.
  3. ↑ Goyau, Georges (1926). "Une Belle Vie d'Historien. Augustin Cochin," Revue des Deux Mondes, No. 522, pp. 621–653.
  4. ↑ Furet, François (1981). "Augustin Cochin: The Theory of Jacobinism," in Interpreting the French Revolution, Chap. III. New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 165.
  5. ↑ Jennings, Jeremy (2011). "History, Revolution and Terror," in Revolution and the Republic, Chap. VI, Oxford University Press, pp. 295–297.
  6. ↑ Gillouin, René (1929). "Augustin Cochin et l'Interprétation "Sociale" de la Révolution de 1789," in Le Destin de l'Occident. Paris: Éditions Prométhée.
  7. ↑ Furet (1981), p. 165.
  8. ↑ Furet (1981), p. 182.
  9. ↑ Devlin, F. Roger (2008). "From Salon to Guillotine," The Occidental Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 63–90.
  10. ↑ Furet (1981), p. 191.

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