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Charles Rollin (
January 30,
1661 –
December 14,
1741) was a
French historian and
educator. He was born in
Paris.
He was the son of a
cutler, and at the age of twenty-two was made a master in the
Collège du Plessis. In 1694 he was rector of the
University of Paris, 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.
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'd 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.
Rollin's literary work dates chiefly from the later years of his life, when he'd been forbidden to teach. His once famous
Ancient History (Paris, 1730-38), and the less generally read
Roman History, which followed it, were avowed compilations, uncritical and somewhat inaccurate. But they instructed and interested, generation after generation. A more original and really important work was his
Traité des études (Paris, 1726-31). It contains a summary of what was even then a reformed and innovative system
of education, including a more frequent and extensive use of the vulgar tongue, and discarded the medieval traditions that had lingered in
France.
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