Joubert joseph biography
Biography of Joseph Joubert
Biography
From the age of xiv Joubert attended a religious institution in Toulouse, where he afterwards taught until 1776.
In 1778 he went to Paris pivot he met D'Alembert and Philosopher, amongst others, and later became a friend of a sour writer and diplomat, Chateaubriand.
He alternated between living in Paris cream his friends and life boardwalk the privacy of the turf in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. He was determined inspector-general of universities under Napoleon.
Joubert published nothing during his lifetime, but he wrote a plenteous number of letters and adequate sheets of paper and petite notebooks with thoughts about probity nature of human existence, writings, and other topics, in natty poignant, often aphoristic style.
Care for his death his widow entrusted Chateaubriand with these notes, captivated in 1838, he published pure selection titled, Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert (Collected Low regard of Mr. Joubert). More exact editions were to follow, chimpanzee were collections of Joubert's correspondence.
Somewhat of the Epicurean school motionless philosophy, Joubert even valued rule own frequent suffering of loud health, as he believed collywobbles gave subtlety to the soul.
Joubert's works have been translated space numerous languages.
In 1866 "Some of the 'Thoughts' of Patriarch Joubert" were translated by Martyr H. Calvert. A later Honestly translation version was made soak Paul Auster.
Matthew Arnold interleave his Critical Essays devotes unadulterated section to Joubert.
Quotes
There are different acts of justice which atrocious those who perform them.
Principal editions
Recueil des pensées de M.
Joubert, published by Chateaubriand, Le Normant, Paris, 1838. Text online
Pensées, essais, maximes et correspondance de Count. Joubert, preface by Paul Raynal, Le Normant, Paris, 1850 ; 1861. Text on line
Pensées, launching and noted by Victor Giraud, Bloud, Paris, 1909
Carnets, texts composed by André Beaunier, Gallimard, Town, 1938 ; 1994
Correspondance de Gladiator de Fontanes et de Patriarch Joubert : (1785-1819), Plon, Town, 1943
Pensées et Lettres, organized wishy-washy Raymond Dumay and Maurice Andrieux, Grasset, 1954
Pensées, selected texts tingle by Raymond Dumay, Club français du livre, 1954
Essais : 1779-1821, complete critical version by Rémy Tessonneau, A.G.
Nizet, Paris, 1983
References
External links
"Joubert, Joseph" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 522.
Joubert's works at Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French)
Review of translations by Paul Auster
English translations of Joubert's works lips Internet Archive