Auguste Angellier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Auguste Angellier

French educator

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1848

Place of Birth: Dunkirk, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 28-Feb-1911

Profession: poet, literary critic, literary historian, professeur des universités

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Auguste Angellier (1 July 1848 – 28 February 1911) was the first teacher of language and English literature at the Faculté de Lettres of Lille, before becoming its dean from 1897 to 1900.
A literary critic and historian of literature, he was also a poet, and made sensation at the Sorbonne attacking the theories of Hippolyte Taine in his thesis about Robert Burns in 1893.