Amiel, Henri-Frédéric

Japanese: アミエル（英語表記）Amiel， Henri-Frédéric

Born: September 27, 1821, Geneva
Died: May 11, 1881, Geneva. A Swiss-French man of letters and philosopher. He received his university education in Germany, where he studied Hegel and Schelling, and was also fascinated by German music and poetry. After returning to Japan, he taught aesthetics and philosophy as a professor at the University of Geneva in 1849. He published several books of essays and poetry, especially skillfully translated poems, but what has made him famous today is his posthumously published Diary, Fragments d'un Journal intime (1882-84). Orphaned at a young age and single all his life, he wrote 16,900 pages of notes detailing his days of solitude and suffering from his time studying in Germany from 1847 until his death, and it is considered a masterpiece of diary literature. It shows both an intellectual philosopher seeking absolute universal truth and a pathological soul engrossed in introspection and meditation, and constantly plagued by anxiety. Unpublished parts have since been expanded and published, attracting attention.

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Japanese:

[生]1821.9.27. ジュネーブ
[没]1881.5.11. ジュネーブ
フランス系スイスの文学者，哲学者。大学教育はドイツで受け，ヘーゲル，シェリングを学ぶ一方，ドイツの音楽，詩に心酔。帰国後，1849年からジュネーブ大学教授として美学と哲学を講じた。数冊の小論文と詩集，特に巧みな訳詩集を発表したが，今日彼の名を高めているのは死後刊行された『日記』 Fragments d'un Journal intime (1882～84) である。幼くして孤児になり，一生独身で過した彼が，ドイツ留学時代の 1847年から没年にいたるまでの孤独と苦悩の日々を1万 6900ページにわたって書き綴ったノートからの抄録で，日記文学の傑作とされている。そこには，絶対的普遍的真理を求める理知的な哲学者の姿と，内省と瞑想にふけり，絶えず不安に悩まされる病的な魂とがみられる。その後も未発表部分が増補，出版されて注目を集めている。

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