Amedey Pichot ( Fr. Joseph-Jean-Marie-Charles-Amédée Pichot ; November 3, 1795 , Arles - February 12, 1877 , Paris ) - French writer, translator and editor.
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He studied medicine in Montpellier , having received a doctor’s diploma in 1817 , but then preferred a literary medical career. He became most famous in France as a specialist in English literature, its translator and popularizer. He made his debut as a translation of all the works of Byron , made with the participation of Ezeb de Salle and published in 1819 - 1821 . in ten volumes, the first volumes under the common pseudonym of two translators A.E. de Chastopalli ; this work, according to V.V. Nabokov (in the comments to “Eugene Onegin”), is “monumental and mediocre,” however, it was used to get acquainted with Byron’s works not only in France, but also in Russia, including A. S Pushkin. Among the subsequent translations of Pisho are The Golden Beetle by Edgar Allan Poe (1845, the first story signed by Edgar Allan Poe outside the English-speaking world) [5] , Lalla Rook by Thomas Moore, Sheridan’s play, David Copperfield and other works by Dickens, works Walter Scott , William Thackeray , Bret Garth and other authors. He published a three-volume essay on the history of literature in England and Scotland ( Fr. Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse ; 1825 ), books on Byron and Shakespeare , etc. From 1838 to the end of his life, he was editor-in-chief of Revue britannique - digest of various English-language publications in French translation and partly in the original. Then the magazine until 1901 was edited by the son of Pisho Pierre-Amedea (1841-1921), also known as a traveler and collector [6] .
In addition, Pichot published a number of his own prose and dramatic works, often in the genre of a romantically understood historical novel close to Walter Scott.
The street in Arles is named after Pichot, on the corner of which a memorial fountain was erected by the decade of his death [7] .
Notes
- ↑ Departmental archives of Bouches-du-Rhône
- ↑ 1 2 3 http://www.amisduvieilarles.com/assets/files/bulletins/pdf/62p.pdf
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ Lois Davis Vines. Poe in France // Poe Abroad: Influence, Reputation, Affinities / Ed. by Lois Davis Vines. - University of Iowa Press, 2002 .-- P. 9.
- ↑ Pierre-Amédée Pichot's Collection on Falconry // Memory of the World: UNESCO's program aiming at preservation and dissemination of valuable archive holdings and library collections worldwide
- ↑ Fontaine Amédée Pichot (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment March 19, 2012. Archived April 24, 2012.
Literature
- Laurence Adolphus Bisson. Amédée Pichot; a romantic Prometheus. - Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1942 .-- xv, 422 p. (eng.)