[GOURAUD, Stéphane, known as:] GURO, Stepan Andreevich, chevalier de.
Rech’ o deistvii prosveshcheniia na sostoianie narodov … [A Speech on the effect of education on the state of the people].
St Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1826.
4to, pp. [iv], 28; a very good, clean copy in contemporary plain blue paper wrappers.
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Rech’ o deistvii prosveshcheniia na sostoianie narodov … [A Speech on the effect of education on the state of the people].
First edition of an early speech on the importance of higher education, delivered by the rector of the recently founded University of St Petersburg in his native French (and in a somewhat florid style, to judge from the Russian translation by Nikita Butyrsky, a fellow academic and translator of Schiller). Stéphane Gouraud had arrived in Russia with Napoleon as a young sergeant in 1812 and stayed on as a teacher of French. His publications include a number of language books for children.
Not in OCLC.
