Henri Hauser

Henri Hauser was a French historian, geographer, and economist. A pioneer in the study of the economic history of the early modern period, he also wrote on contemporary economic issues and held the first chair in economic history to be established at a French university. He was born in Oran into a middleclass Jewish family who had moved to French Algeria for health reasons but returned to France when Hauser was four years old. Hauser was educated at the Lyce Condorcet in Paris and then at the cole Normale Suprieure where he came first in both the entrance and leaving examinations. He initially taught in provincial lyces before taking his doctorate in 1892 with a thesis on the 16thcentury Huguenot leader, Franois de la Noue. Hauser went on to become a professor of ancient and medieval history at the University of ClermontFerrand, modern history and geography at the University of Dijon, and finally a professor of history and economic history at the Sorbonne from 1919 to 1936. His 1905 b

Hauser was born into a Jewish family of republican sympathies. His father Auguste Hauser had been a Freemason and was a tailor by trade. His mother, Zlia Hauser ne Aron , was the daughter of a prosperous merchant and exporter in Besancon. Although both of Hausers parents were born in Besancon, their families origins were in Luemschwiller in the Alsace region. Henri and his elder brother FlixPaul were born in Oran in French Algeria where the family had relocated to improve Zlias health and where Auguste had a tailor shop. The family returned to France when Henri was four years old, on the eve of the FrancoPrussian War. After a short stay in Marseille, they settled in SeineSaintDenis near Paris where Auguste resumed his trade as a tailor. Hausers mother Zlia died of tuberculosis when he was thirteen. His maternal uncle, Henry Aron, then looked after the education of Henri and FlixPaul. He enrolled Henri in the Lyce Condorcet to prepare him for eventual study at the cole Normale Suprieur

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