Gabriel Compayré

Gabriel Compayré was a French scholar of pedagogy and politician.

Gabriel Compayré
Born	2 January 1843 Albi, France
Died	23 March 1913 (1913-03-24) (aged 70) Paris, France
Education	Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma mater	École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines
Occupation(s)	Scholar, politician

Early life

Gabriel Compayré was born on 2 January 1843 in Albi, France.^[1]

Compayré was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.^[1] He graduated from the École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines and passed the Agrégation in philosophy in 1866.^[1][2] He received a doctorate in philosophy in 1873, with a thesis about David Hume.^[1]

Career

Compayré taught high school philosophy in Pau, Poitiers and Toulouse.^[1] He taught philosophy at the University of Toulouse.^[1][2] He was the author of many books on pedagogy.^[3] He also wrote books about Peter Abelard and Herbert Spencer. Some of his books were translated into English by William H. Payne.^[4]

Compayré served in the National Assembly from 1881 to 1889,^[1] serving as deputy to Lavaur.^[5] He lost his reelection bid to Charles Poulié in 1889.^[1]

Compayré was a Commander of the Legion of Honour.^[1]

Publications

Source:^[5]

• Histoire critique des doctrines de l’éducation en France (1879)
• Histoire de la pédagogie. 1800. (extended version of Histroire critique, published after 1879) - translated by W.H. Payne (1888). History of Pedagogy. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey.
• Éléments d’éducation civique (1881), a work placed on the index at Rome, but very widely read in the primary schools of France
• Cours de pédagogie théorique et pratique (1885, 13th ed., 1897)
• The Intellectual and Moral Development of the Child, in English (2 vols., New York, 1896–1902)
• A series of monographs on Les Grands Éducateurs.

Death

Compayré died on March 23, 1913, in Paris, France.^[1]