Hippolyte Taine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hippolyte Taine

French critic and historian

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1828

Place of Birth: Vouziers, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 05-Mar-1893

Profession: writer, historian, art historian, philosopher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French critic and historian.
He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him.
Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature. Taine had a profound effect on French literature; the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica asserted that "the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's." Through his work on the French Revolution, Taine has been credited as having ', ‘forged the architectural structure of modern French right-wing historiography’.