Auguste Angellier (1 July 1848 – 28 February 1911) was the first teacher of language and English literature at the Faculté de Lettres of Lille, before becoming its dean from 1897 to 1900. A literary critic and historian of literature, he was also a poet, and made sensation at the Sorbonne attacking the theories of Hippolyte Taine in his thesis about Robert Burns in 1893.
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1 July 1848 Dunkerque, Nord, France
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Died |
28 February 1911 (aged 62) Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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