Ozanam, ANTOINE FRÉDÉRIC — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Ozanam, ANTOINE FRÉDÉRIC, was born at Milan, April 23, 1813, studied at Lyons and Paris, and was appointed in 1841 to fill the chair of Foreign Literature at the Sorbonne. He died at Marseilles, September 8, 1853. Ozanam possessed learning and industry, but fate did not favour him in his dream of rivalling the work of Gibbon, save in such fragments as Dante et la Philosophie Catholique au XVIII^e Siècle (1839), Histoire de la Civilisation au V^e Siècle (1845; Eng. trans. 1868), and Études Germaniques (1847-49). A collected edition of his writings fills 11 vols. (1862-75). There are Lives by Karker (Paderborn, 1867), O'Meara (Edin. 1876), and Hardy (Mainz, 1878).