Gabriel Compayré

Gabriel Compayré was a French scholar of pedagogy and politician.

Early life Gabriel Compayré was born on 2 January 1843 in Albi, France.

Compayré was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He received a doctorate in philosophy in 1873, with a thesis about David Hume. He also wrote books about Peter Abelard and Herbert Spencer. Some of his books were translated into English by William H. Payne.

Compayré served in the National Assembly from 1881 to 1889, He lost his reelection bid to Charles Poulié in 1889.

Compayré was a Commander of the Legion of Honour.

Publications

Source:

Histoire critique des doctrines de l’éducation en France (1879) (extended version of Histroire critique, published after 1879) - translated by 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.