Félix Deltour

French writer and latinist
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Quick Facts

IntroFrench writer and latinist
PlacesFrance
wasWriter Latinist Teacher
Work fieldAcademia Literature Social science
Gender
Male
Birth8 September 1822, Paris, France
Death12 November 1904 (aged 82 years)
Star signVirgo
Education
École normale supérieure
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Awards
Concours général 
The details

Biography

Nicolas Félix Deltour (8 September 1822, Paris – 12 November 1904) was a 19th-century French latinist, educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the École normale supérieure. He then taught at various schools, was appointed academy inspector in 1871, Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Public Instruction in 1875 and served from 1879 as Inspector General of lower education.

Works

  • De Sallustio Catonis imitatore, seu quid, in scriptis C. Crispi Sallustii, ad imitationem M. Porcii Catonis censorii referri possit (1859). Paris, éd. Durand
  • Les ennemis de Racine au XVIIe siècle. Didier et Durand, Paris 1857
  • (in coll. with Charles Rinn) Choix de morceaux traduits des auteurs latins (Hachette, 1887)
  • Histoire de la littérature romaine, éditions Charles Delagrave, Paris (1887-1889)

Sources

Joseph Meyer; et al. (1879). "Racine, Jean". Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (4e : 1888–1890 ed.).

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