Claude-Joseph Drioux, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Claude-Joseph Drioux

French priest, popular educator, cartographer, geographer, historian, and religious writer

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1820

Date of Death: 13-May-1898

Profession: historian, cartographer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Claude-Joseph Drioux

  • Abbé Claude-Joseph Drioux (1820–1898) was a French priest, popular educator, cartographer, geographer, historian, and religious writer. Drioux was born 17 February 1820 at Bourdons, Haute-Marne.
  • He was first priest, then professor at the seminary of Langres, vicaire général, finally chanoine. Drioux was the "star author" of the publishers Belin.
  • The 51 school textbooks of the Abbé Drioux had a great vogue in France for over thirty years and some ran to 30 editions, "they almost had a monopoly on the education of children of both sexes in the free institutions both primary and secondary schools of our country" The total number of books sold exceeded one million.
  • This author derived a steady income from Belin allowing him to purchase the Chateau de Lanty Nièvre, Bourgogne, France, former property of the Marquise de Coligny, where he died 13 May 1898. As a religious writer and popular educator Drioux was influential not only on schoolchildren but adults in bringing the findings of German scholars to the popular French audience.
  • His pictorial Bible (1864) and history of Rome (1876) contain many interpretations evidently sourced from contemporary German sources, but also renaissance sources such as Menochius.
  • He perhaps independently identified the "five brothers" as the sons of Annas and the "rich man" as Caiaphas in the parable of Lazarus in Luke 16. As a geographer Drioux worked primarily with cartographer Charles Leroy.
  • As an editor of Latin theological works he worked with a series of co-editors.

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