Barzen, Jacques

Jacques Martin Barzun ( French Jacques Martin Barzun , November 30, 1907, France - October 25, 2012, USA ) is an American cultural historian , publicist, and teacher. Emerit Professor at Columbia University . The author of many books.

Jacques Barzen
fr. Jacques barzun
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Academic degree	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Academic rank	emérite - professor
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Since 1920, in the United States, where he moved with his mother and where his father was from 1917 on a diplomatic mission.

Graduated from Columbia University (Bachelor and Master of Arts). He received his Ph.D. in the same place in 1932, defending a thesis on Montesquieu, which formed the basis of his first book published in the same year. Since 1928, he taught history at the alma mater, since 1937 a professor, was dean and vice-rector, and since 1975, retired, emérit . In 1996, he moved from New York to San Antonio, Texas, where he died.

Since 1933, a US citizen. First married in 1931 and divorced in 1936. In the same year he married a second time, from this marriage three children, since 1979 a widower. In 1980, married a third time.

The final work of Jacques Barzen is an impressive book “From Dawn to Decline: 500 Years of the Cultural History of the West” (From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, from 1500 to the present ^[13] ) (2000), which he published when he was 92 years old. According to B. Paramonov , the breakdown of the West, which led to the current decline, decadence, Barzen marks 1914 as the year of the beginning of the First World War, which, according to him, dispelled "The Great Illusion" - a Western myth of progressive cultural progress ^[14] .