Charles Borgeaud (

Le Sentier Le Sentier is a village in the Vallée de Joux in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Part of the municipality Le Chenit, the village has 3,000 inhabitants. Numerous Swiss watchmakers are based in Le Sentier: Jaeger-LeCoultre Manufacture Jaeger- ...

, 15 agosto 1861 – Onex, 6 ottobre 1940) was a Swiss historian and Jurist. UniBastions-rez-buste-Borgeaud-1

Early life

He was born in 1861 in Le Sentier, in the Vallée de Joux, into a family of notables from Pully. In 1878 he became a student at the

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public university, public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by French theologian John Calvin as a Theology, theological seminary. It rema ...

. He continued his studies in Germany, at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...

where he earned a degree in Philosophy. He returned to Geneva where he wrote his thesis on Law. In the following 10 years he traveled to Paris and London. In London he found important documents that would form his doctrine and guide him in his next work. Modern democracies emerged thanks to the religious reforms and policies of the sixteenth century.

Academic career

In 1896 the University of Geneva offered him the chair in History of Swiss Institutional Politics. During this period he began to write the history of the University of Geneva. It was finished in 1934 in four volumes. The first volume led him to be nominated for the

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...

in Literature in 1901. On October 24, 1924, he received the honorary degree of the Geneva bourgeoisie.

Recognition

1901 December 13 of this year is the beginning of signed 32-bit Unix time, and is scheduled to end in January 19, 2038. Summary Political and military 1901 started with the unification of multiple British colonies in Australia on January ...

, Borgeaud was nominated for the

Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning ''for'' Literature (), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in ...

for one of his monumental works, the ''Histoire de l'Université de Genève. L'académie de Calvin. 1559-1798'' ("The History of the Geneva University: Calvin's Academy", 1900) by the scholar Paul Seippel and historians Antoine Guilland and

Wilhelm Oechsli Wilhelm Oechsli (6 October 1851, Riesbach – 26 April 1919) was a Swiss historian. Oechsli studied theology and history at Berlin and Zürich, under Theodor Mommsen among others. In 1887 he took up the new chair of Swiss history at the Swiss ...

Publications

* ''J.-J. Rousseau's Religionsphilosophie'' (1883) * ''Établissement et revision des constitutions en Amérique et en Europe'' (1893) * ''Histoire du plébiscite: t. 1. le plébiscite dans l'antiquité, Grèce et Rome'' (1887) * ''Calvin, fondateur de l'Académie de Genève'' (1897) * ''Histoire de l´université de Genève: L'Académie de Calvin'' (1900) * ''Le Jean-Jacques Rousseau genevois de Gaspard Vallette...'' (1912) * ''La chute, la restauration de la République de Genève et son entrée dans la Confédération suisse, 1798-1815'' (1915) * ''La neutralité suisse au centre de la Société des nations'' (1921)

References

People from the canton of Vaud 1861 births 1940 deaths 19th-century Swiss historians Swiss jurists University of Jena alumni Academic staff of the University of Geneva Corresponding fellows of the British Academy Place of birth missing Place of death missing 20th-century Swiss historians {{Switzerland-historian-stub