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Charles Dejob
1847–1916
A French scholar of literature and education, he built a career around the ties between French and Italian culture and wrote widely on universities, religion, theater, and intellectual life. His books reflect a serious curiosity about how ideas move between countries and across centuries.
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L'Instruction Publique en France et en Italie au dix-neuvième siècle
by Charles Dejob
About the author
Born in Paris on September 29, 1847, and dying there on April 5, 1916, Charles Dejob was a French university professor and man of letters. Sources describe him as a specialist in both French and Italian literature, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France identifies him as a former student of the École normale supérieure.
Dejob spent many years teaching at the Sorbonne, where he became known for promoting Italian language and culture in France. Treccani notes that he founded and led a society for Italian studies from 1892 to 1910, and that he was an important contributor to the Bulletin Italien.
His writing ranged across literary history, religion, education, and drama. Among the works most often highlighted are De l'influence du Concile de Trente sur la littérature et les beaux-arts chez les peuples catholiques (1884), Mme de Staël et l'Italie (1890), Études sur la tragédie (1897), and La foi religieuse en Italie au XIVe siècle (1906), along with studies on public instruction and university life.