Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut

French critic

Date of Birth: 14-Jun-1825

Place of Birth: Limoges, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 10-Dec-1895

Profession: translator, literary critic

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut (14 June 1825 – 10 December 1895), was a French critic. He was born at Limoges.
He began to write for the Revue des deux mondes in 1847, contributing between 1851 and 1857 a series of articles on the English and American novel, and in 1857 he became chief literary critic of the review.
Émile Montégut translated Essais de philosophie américaine (1850) from Ralph Waldo Emerson; Revolution de 1688 (2 vols.
1853) from Thomas Macaulay's History; and also produced the Œuvres completes (10 vols.
1868-1873) of William Shakespeare. Among his numerous critical works are Types littéraires et fantaisies esthétiques (1882), Ecrivains modernes d'Angleterre (3rd series, 1885-1892) and Heures de lecture d'un critique (1891), studies of John Aubrey, Alexander Pope, Wilkie Collins and Sir John Mandeville. Montégut died at Paris.