Gabriel Compayré

Gabriel Compayré
Born2 January 1843
Albi, France
Died23 March 1913 (1913-03-24) (aged 70)
Paris, France
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines
Occupation(s)Scholar, politician

Gabriel Compayré was a French scholar of pedagogy and politician.

Early life

Gabriel Compayré was born on 2 January 1843 in Albi, France.[1]

Compayré was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.[1] He graduated from the École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines and passed the Agrégation in philosophy in 1866.[1][2] He received a doctorate in philosophy in 1873, with a thesis about David Hume.[1]

Career

Compayré taught high school philosophy in Pau, Poitiers and Toulouse.[1] He taught philosophy at the University of Toulouse.[1][2] He was the author of many books on pedagogy.[3] He also wrote books about Peter Abelard and Herbert Spencer. Some of his books were translated into English by William H. Payne.[4]

Compayré served in the National Assembly from 1881 to 1889,[1] serving as deputy to Lavaur.[5] He lost his reelection bid to Charles Poulié in 1889.[1]

Compayré was a Commander of the Legion of Honour.[1]

Publications

Source:[5]

  • Histoire critique des doctrines de l’éducation en France (1879)
  • Histoire de la pédagogie. 1800. (extended version of Histroire critique, published after 1879) - translated by W.H. Payne (1888). History of Pedagogy. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey.
  • Éléments d’éducation civique (1881), a work placed on the index at Rome, but very widely read in the primary schools of France
  • Cours de pédagogie théorique et pratique (1885, 13th ed., 1897)
  • The Intellectual and Moral Development of the Child, in English (2 vols., New York, 1896–1902)
  • A series of monographs on Les Grands Éducateurs.

Death

Compayré died on March 23, 1913, in Paris, France.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Gabriel COMPAYRÉ (1843 - 1913)". Assemblee nationale. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Gabriel Compayré (1843-1913)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  3. ^ "Online Books by Gabriel Compayré (Compayré, Gabriel, 1843-1913)". Online Books Page. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  4. ^ "Online Books by William Harold Payne (Payne, William Harold, 1836-1907)". Online Books Page. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  5. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Compayre, Jules Gabriel" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 809.


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