Paul Hazard

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Paul Hazard


Born
in France
April 30, 1878

Died
April 13, 1944


Paul Hazard was an eminent French historian of ideas and a pioneering scholar of comparative literature. After teaching at the University of Lyon and the Sorbonne, he was appointed to the chair of comparative literature at the Collège de France in 1925 and in 1940 was elected to the French Academy. From 1932 on Hazard also taught at regular intervals at Columbia University, and he was in New York when the Nazis occupied France in 1941. He immediately returned to France to assume the rectorship of the University of Paris but was rejected for the position by the Nazis. Hazard’s reputation rests on two major works of intellectual history: The Crisis of the European Mind, from 1935, and its sequel, European Thought in the Eighteenth Century: Fr ...more

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European Thought in the Eig...

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Books, Children and Men

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The European Mind 1680-1715

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La pensée européenne au XVI...

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El Pensamiento Europeo en e...

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de la Liberté de l'Art Dram...

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“Against the nationalistic prejudices of the various peoples, the idea of universal egalitarianism could make no headway.”
Paul Hazard, The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680-1715

“It is certain that”
Paul Hazard, The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715

“All their dates and periods are a hopeless tangle. They are very hazy even about the correct dates of their national festivals.”
Paul Hazard, The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715

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