[MATHEMATIQUES] - WLAC, OZANAM -Livre Rare Book
La Vie et les Oeuvres de Frederic Ozanam. Avec un lettre de Monseigneur l'Eveque d'Autun.
1888SS11210Lyon:: Vitte & Perrussel 1888. 1888. 8vo. xiii 1 392 pp. Half title title printed in red & black; paper evenly toned. Quarter pebbled green morocco over marbled paper-backed boards 5 raised bands to gilt-stamped spine marbled free endleaves and pastedowns. Discrete ownership stamp of "FICHE". Fine. This is a detailed biography of Ozanam by one who admired his achievements detailing his scientific and scholarly interests work as a writer his works as a teacher professor 'a friend of youth' the Conferences of Notre-Dame and 'Les Cercles Catholiques' the Societe de Saint-Vincent de Paul as popularizer and as a Christian. Ozanam 1813-1853 was a French scholar who was "the leading historical and literary critic in the neo-Catholic movement in France during the first half of the 19th century." He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1997 and is consequently referred to as Blessed Frederick by Catholics Wikip. Ozanam died at just 40 years of age due to 'consumption'. Huit wrote on the life and history of Plato the history of metaphysics Pierre-Simon Ballanche 1776-1847 etc. Vitte & Perrussel, 1888. hardcover
