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French philologist
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Birth:
4 June 1820(Strasbourg, France)
Death:
30 May 1895
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École normale supérieure
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Benjamin-Constant Martha, also known under the name Constant Martha, (1820–1895) was a 19th-century French moralist andhistorian of ancient morality.
A graduate of the École normale supérieure, agrégé de lettres and docteur ès lettres, he was professor of literature at the lycée de Strasbourg, then held the chair of Latin eloquence at the Sorbonne and professor at the Collège de France. He was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1872.
He was Jules Martha's father and Paul Girard's stepfather.
Publications
- 1854: De la Morale pratique dans les lettres de Sénèque (thesis) online
- 1854: Dionis philosophantis effigies (thèse complémentaire en latin)
- 1854: De la Morale pratique dans les lettres de Sénèque
- 1865: Les Moralistes sous l'Empire romain, philosophes et poètes
- 1866: Les Sophistes grecs dans l’Empire romain
- 1869: Le Poème de Lucrèce : morale, religion, science Read online
- 1883: Études morales sur l'antiquité.
- 1884: La Délicatesse dans l'art
- 1896: Mélanges de littérature ancienne