André Borel d'Hauterive explained

André Borel d'Hauterive
Birth Name:André-François-Joseph Borel
Birth Date:3 July 1812
Death Place:Paris
Occupation:Historian
Librarian

André Borel d'Hauterive (3 July 1812 – 16 March 1896), also known by the pen name André-François-Joseph Borel, was a 19th-century French historian and librarian.

Biography

The son of André Borel[1] and Magdeleine Victoire Garnaud, he was one among 14 children. The romantic poet Pétrus Borel was his brother.

A student at the École des chartes class 1835, he graduated as archivist-paleographer in 1837.

First attached to the historical work of the Ministry of Education, he became secretary of the École des chartes (May 1849), librarian at the Sainte-Geneviève Library (1864) and assistant curator of the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque nationale (1 January 1874). He was director of the Revue historique de la noblesse.

Works

From 1842, André Borel d'Hauterive wrote the Annuaire de la Pairie et de la Noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe.

He also wrote under the pseudonyms Carl Egger, Ernest Valery, Adrien Moreau, Hippolyte Raineval and Mattéphile Lerob.[2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Jean-Luc Steinmetz, Pétrus Borel: un auteur provisoire, Lille : Presses universitaires, 1986.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=5TrpGCCaquUC&dq=%22Andr%C3%A9+Borel+d'Hauterive&pg=PA137 Article "Carl Egger" in Dictionnaire des pseudonymes