Charles Rollin
Charles Rollin (30 January 1661 in Paris - 14 December 1741 in Paris)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was a French historian and educator.
Life
Rollin was the son of a cutler, and at the age of 22 was made a master in the Collège du Plessis. In 1694 he was rector of the University of Paris,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> rendering great service among other things by reviving the study of Greek. He held that post for two years instead of one, and in 1699 was appointed principal of the Collège de Beauvais.Template:Sfn
Rollin held Jansenist principles, and even went so far as to defend the miracles supposed to be worked at the tomb of François de Paris, commonly known as Deacon Paris. Unfortunately his religious opinions deprived him of his appointments and disqualified him for the rectorship, to which in 1719 he had been re-elected. It is said that the same reason prevented his election to the Académie française, though he was a member of the Academie des Inscriptions. Shortly before his death he protested publicly against the acceptance of the bull Unigenitus.Template:Sfn
Works
Rollin's literary work dates chiefly from the later years of his life, when he had been forbidden to teach. His once famous Ancient History (Template:Langx, 12 vols., Paris, 1730–38) and the less generally read Roman History<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> (Template:Lang, only five of nine volumes finished by the time of his death) were avowed compilations, uncritical and somewhat inaccurate. But they instructed and interested, generation after generation. A more original and really important work was his Treatise on Education (Template:Lang, Paris, 1726–31), which contains a summary of what was even then a reformed and innovative system of education, discarding the medieval traditions that had lingered in France,Template:Sfn emphasizing the study of national history after dropping Latin for vernacular in textbooks. Rollin himself didn't begin writing in French until age 60.
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Citations
Bibliography
- Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. vi.
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External links
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- 1661 births
- 1741 deaths
- Academic staff of the University of Paris
- Rectors of the University of Paris
- Writers from Paris
- French educators
- 18th-century French historians
- 18th-century French writers
- 18th-century French male writers
- Academic staff of the Collège de France