Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher, playwright and music critic (1889–1973)
Gabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel's work focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society.2
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Born Dec 7, 1889, died Oct 8, 1973.1
About
Though often regarded as the first French existentialist, he dissociated himself from figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, preferring the term philosophy of existence or neo-Socrateanism to define his own thought. The Mystery of Being is a well-known two-volume work authored by Marcel.
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Companies
- Hasbro EntertainmentFounder19
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of Paris3
Gabriel Honoré Marcel was born on 7 December 1889 in Paris, France. His mother, Laure Meyer, who was Jewish, died when he was young, and he was brought up by his aunt and father, Henry Marcel.
Marcel completed his DES thesis (diplôme d'études supérieures, roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) and obtained the agrégation in philosophy from the Sorbonne in 1910, at the unusually young age of 20. During the First World War he worked as head of the Information Service, organized by the Red Cross to convey news of injured soldiers to their families. He taught in secondary schools, was a drama critic for various literary journals, and worked as an editor for Plon, the major French Catholic publisher.
Marcel was the son of an agnostic, and was himself not a member of any organized religion until his conversion to Catholicism in 1929.
He died on 8 October 1973 in Paris.
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Career
Occupation: critic, musician, literary critic, writer, philosopher, playwright.7
- 1955 to 1973President, Société des amis de Charles Du Bos6
- Date not recordedWorked at University of Paris4
- Date not recordedFounded Hasbro Entertainment5
Personal life
Legal issues and controversies
Literary and dramatic criticism
Gabriel Marcel et François Mauriac. In: François Bréda, Ca critique littéraire et dramatique de Gabriel Marcel, Les Éditions Grinta, Cluj-Napoca, 2004.
Regards sur le théâtre de Claudel, éditions Beauchesne, 1964.
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Awards
- 1969Erasmus Prize13 16
- 1968Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris13 15
- 1964Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association13 14
- 1958Grand prix national des Lettres13
- 1948Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française13
- 1937Prix Brieux13
- Date not recordedKnight of the Legion of Honour13
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- 1WikidataGabriel Marcel on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaGabriel Marcel on Wikipedia
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- 19WikidataHasbro Entertainment, Founder
- 20Wikimedia CommonsGabriel Marcel photo by Fotograaf Onbekend / Anefo, CC0