Auguste Laugel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Auguste Laugel

French historian

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1830

Place of Birth: Strasbourg, France

Date of Death: 21-Oct-1914

Profession: engineer, historian, philosopher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Antoine-Auguste Laugel (20 January 1830 – 1914) was a French historian and engineer born in Strasbourg. He received his education at the École polytechnique in Paris, and for a period of time was secretary and confidant to the Duke of Aumale.
Later he was appointed director of the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM), a French railway company. He published articles in various journals such as the Revue des Deux Mondes, where he penned an important account of Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1860.
He was the author of numerous historical and philosophical works.