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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