Arnu, Edmond Nicola

He received a pedagogical education in his native city, then he was successively a teacher in Sargemin and Nancy, headed a school in Diez, taught in Osh, Tours and Angers. In 1841 he received a doctorate in literature, the following year he was appointed professor of rhetoric in Angers. In 1843, he replaced Jenin as a professor of French literature at the University of Strasbourg, then from 1845 he taught it for several years at the university in Poitiers ^[1] , and after Ozanama died, he occupied the department of foreign literature at the Faculty of Literature of the University of Paris (in 1853 ^[2] ; approved in office was in 1856).

He wrote the poem “Révolution de 1830” (1830, in-8 format), the drama in verses “Georges Dalton” (Poitiers, 1846, in-18 format; was staged at the Odeon Theater), translated from the first four songs “Theida »Station for the meeting of Nizar; In addition, he wrote extensive literary works "De l'invention originale" (1849, in-8 format), awarded by the Paris Academy Award, and "Essai d'une théorie du style" (1851, in-8 format), subsequently revised the work of the authors of the group “Essais de théorie et d'histoire littéraire” (1858, in-8 format), which also included a compiled treatise on the influence of Italian literature on French literature by M. Rateri in 1852 Awarded by the Paris Academy. After the death of Edmond Arnu, his friends collected sonnets and poems of his authorship, released under the title of the same name and with the preface of San Mark Girardin in in-18 format in 1861 and reprinted in 1863.

• Arnu, Edmond-Nikola // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 extra.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

• Arnu, Edmond Nicola // La grande encyclopédie (Fr.) .