Frédéric Antoine Ozanam (April 23, 1813 - September 8, 1853) was a French scholar. He founded with fellow students the Conference of Charity, later known as the Saint Vincent de Paul Society. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1997, hence he may be properly called Blessed Frédéric by Catholics. April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... In Catholicism, beatification (from Latin beatus, blessed, via Greek μακαριος, makarios) is a recognition accorded by the church of a dead persons accession to Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name (intercession of saints). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Life

He was born in Milan. His family, which was of Jewish extraction, had been settled in the Lyonnais for many centuries, and had reached distinction in the third generation before Frédéric through Jacques Ozanam (1640-1717), an eminent mathematician. Ozanam's father, Antoine, served in the armies of the Republic, but betook himself, on the advent of the Empire, to trade, teaching, and finally medicine. Location within Italy Piazza della Scala Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed of Italian regions. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Lyonnais is a former province of central-eastern France, located in the modern day Rhône département. ... Jacques Ozanam (1640 - April 3, 1717) was a French mathematician. ... Events December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. ... Events January 4 — The Netherlands, Britain & France sign Triple Alliance March 2 — Dancer John Weaver performs in the first ballet in Britain shown in Drury Lane The Loves of Mars and Venus March 31 - Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, acting on the advice of King George begins the Bangorian Controversy by saying... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... The First French Empire, commonly known as the French Empire, the Napoleonic Empire or simply as The Empire, covers the period of the domination of France and much of continental Europe by Napoleon I of France. ...

The boy was brought up in Lyon and was strongly influenced by one of his masters, the Abbé Noirot. His conservative and religious aistincts showed themselves early, and he published a pamphlet against Saint-Simonianism in 1831, which attracted the attention of Lamartine. In the following year he was sent to study law in Paris, where be fell in with the Ampere family, and through them with Chateaubriand, Lacordaire, Montalembert; and other leaders of the neo-Catholic movement. City motto: Avant, avant, Lion le melhor. ... Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon (October 17, 1760 – May 19, 1825), the founder of French socialism, was born in Paris. ... 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine (October 21, 1790 - February 28, 1869) was a French writer, poet and politician. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Amp re can refer to: Amp re (car) Ampere (unit) Andr -Marie Amp re This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... François-René de Chateaubriand François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768 – July 4, 1848) was a French writer and diplomat considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. ... Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (March 12, 1802 - November 21, 1861), was a French ecclesiastic and orator. ... Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (March 18, 1810 - March 13, 1870), was a French publicist and historian. ...

Whilst still a student he took up journalism and contributed considerably to Bailly's Tribune catholique, which became (November 1, 1833) L'univers. In conjunction with other young men he founded in May 1833 the celebrated charitable Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, which numbered before his death upwards of two thousand members. He received the degree of doctor of law in 1836, and in 1838 that of doctor of letters with a thesis on Dante, which was the beginning of one of his best-known books. A year later he was appointed to a professorship of commercial law at Lyon, and in 1840 assistant professor of foreign literature at the Sorbonne. He married in June 1841, and visited Italy on his wedding tour. November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul is an international organization of Roman Catholic lay men and women of all ages, whose primary mission is to help the poor and less fortunate. ... 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Dante in a fresco series of famous men by Andrea del Castagno, ca. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The Sorbonne today, from the same point of view The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

At Fauriel's death in 1844 he succeeded to the full professorship of foreign literature. The short remainder of his life was extremely busy with his professorial duties, his extensive literary occupations, and the work, which he still continued, of district-visiting as a member of the society of St Vincent de Paul. Claude Charles Fauriel (October 21, 1772 - July 15, 1844) was a French historian, philologist and critic. ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

During the Revolution of 1848, of which he took a sanguine view, he once more turned journalist for a short time in the Ere nouvelle and other papers. He travelled extensively, and was in England at the time of the Exhibition of 1851. His naturally weak constitution fell a prey to consumption, which he hoped to cure by visiting Italy, but he died on his return at Marseilles on September 8, 1853. —Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections The European Revolutions of 1848, in some countries known as the Spring of Nations, were the bloody consequences of a variety of changes that had been taking place in Europe in the first half of the 19th century. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... The Great Exhibition was an international exhibition held in Hyde Park London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851 and the first in a series of Worlds Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to be a popular 19th century feature. ... Consumption is also an archaic name for the disease tuberculosis, presumably because, prior to the age of modern antibiotics, often it would seem that the disease was consuming patients from within as they coughed up blood. ... Marseilles redirects here. ...

Works

Ozanam was the leading historical and literary critic in the neo-Catholic movement in France during the first half of the 19th century. He was more learned, more sincere, and more logical than Chateaubriand; less of a political partisan and less of a literary sentimentalist than Montalembert. In contemporary movements he was an earnest and conscientious advocate of Catholic democracy and socialism and of the view that the church should adapt itself to the changed political conditions consequent to the French Revolution. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... For information on mainstream political parties using the term Socialist, see Social democracy and Democratic socialism,For the governments of the USSR, the PRC, and others, see: Communist state, Other variants of Socialism include Marxism, Communism, and Libertarian Socialism. ... The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ...

In his writings he dwelt upon important contributions of historical Christianity, and maintained especially that, in continuing the work of the Caesars, the Catholic church had been the most potent factor in civilizing the invading barbarians and in organizing the life of the Middle Ages. He confessed that his object was to prove the contrary thesis to Gibbons, and, although any historian who begins with the desire to prove a thesis is quite sure to go more or less wrong, Ozanam no doubt administered a healthful antidote to the prevalent notion, particularly amongst English-speaking peoples, that the Catholic church had done far more to enslave than to elevate the human mind. His knowledge of medieval literature and his appreciative sympathy with medieval life admirably qualified him for his work, and his scholarly attainments are still highly esteemed. The Caesars are a Swedish alternative rock band. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Famous people named Gibbons include: Christopher Gibbons (1615 - 1676) - English composer, son of Orlando . ... Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe during the Middle Ages (roughly from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. ...

His works were published in eleven volumes (Paris, 1862-1865). They include:

• Deux chanceliers d'Angleterre, Bacon de Verulam et Saint Thomas de Cantorbry (Paris, 1836)
• Dante et la philosophie catholique au XIIIeme siècle (Paris, 1839; 2nd ed., enlarged 1845)
• Études germaniques (2 vols., Paris, 1847-1849), translated by A. C. Glyn as History of Civilization in the Fifth Century (London, 1868)
• Documents inédits pour servir a l'histoire de l'Italie depuis le VIIIeme siècle jusqu'au XIIeme (Paris, 1850)
• Les poi~tes franciscains en Italie au XIIIme sicle (Paris, 1852)
• His letters have been partially translated into English by A. Coates (London, 1886).

References

• There are French lives of Ozanam by his brother, C.A. Ozanam (Paris, 1882); Mme E. Humbert (Paris, 1880); C. Huit (Paris, 1882); M. de Lambel (Paris, 1887); L. Curnier (Paris, 1888); and B. Faulquier (Paris, 1903)
• German lives by F.X. Karker (Paderborn, 1867) and E. Hardy (Mainz, 1878)
• an interesting English biography by Miss K. O'Meara (Edinburgh, 1867; 2nd ed., London, 1878)
• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.