Victor Cousin

Victor Cousin studied at Lycée Charlemagne and Pensionnat normal. He trained under Pierre Laromiguière and Pierre Paul Royer-Collard. His recorded influences include Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Blaise Pascal and John Locke.

As a teacher, Victor Cousin is recorded in connection with Étienne Vacherot, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, Charles Bénard and Honoré de Balzac. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.

Victor Cousin worked in history of philosophy.

He was employed by University of Paris. Recorded positions include member of the Chamber of Peers, director of École normale supérieure (Paris) and seat 5 of the Académie française. He belonged to Académie Française, Société héliographique, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Victor Cousin received Commander of the Legion of Honour, Concours général and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Work by Victor Cousin is held by Geldersch Landschap en Kasteelen.

48 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1827 to 1937.

Eight months at the Ministry of Public Education. Fragments philosophiques. On the True, the Beautiful, and the Good. Lectures on the true, the beautiful, and the good. Philosophical Miscellanies. Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal. Du vrai, du beau et du bien. Philosophical essays. Société Française Au 17e Siècle d'après le Grand Cyrus de Mlle. de Scudéry. OEuvres de Descartes, Tome Premier. Madame de Longueville. Oeuvres de Descartes, Volume 10... Jeunesse de Mazarin... Fragments Philosophiques Pour Faire Suite Aux Cours de l'histoire de la Philosophie; Volume 1. Philosophy of Kant. Leçons Sur la Philosophie de Kant. Oeuvres de Descartes, Volume 2... Madame de Sablé. Youth of Madame de Longueville. Elements of Psychology. Cours de l'histoire de la Philosophie Moderne. Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne. Oeuvres, Volume 3... Cours de l'histoire de la Philosophie Moderne; Volume 5. Oeuvres de Descartes, Volume 11... Justice et Charité. Cours de l'Histoire de la Philosophie Moderne, Tome I. République ~ Πολιτεία. Republic ~ Πολιτεία. Cours de l'Histoire de la Philosophie Moderne Première et Deuxième Série. Oeuvres Philosophiques du Père André ... Du Vrai, du Beau, & du Bien. OEuvres de Victor Cousin. Oeuvres de Descartes, Publiées. Études Sur Pascal. Cours de Philosophie. Opera Hactenus Seorsim Edita; Volume 1. Petri Abælardi Opera; Volume 2. Petri Abælardi Opera; Volume 1. Philosophie de Kant... Manuel de l'histoire de la philosophie, trad. de l'allemand de [G.G.] Tennemann. Master Lambton, dated published March 26, 1827, mezzotint on paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1927.2576. Fragments philosophiques pour faire suite aux Cours de l'histoire de la philosophie / [Victor Cousin]., dated 1847, held by Wellcome Collection. Fragments de philosophie cartésienne / par Victor Cousin., dated 1845, held by Wellcome Collection. Cours de l'histoire de la philosophie moderne. Deuxième série / par Victor Cousin., dated 1847, held by Wellcome Collection. Elements of psychology : included in a critical examination of Locke's Essay on the human understanding / by Victor Cousin ... translated from the French, with an introduction, notes, and additions, by C.S. Henry., dated 1834, held by Wellcome Collection. Harold (and Victor) Winnicott (uncle and cousin), dated 1937-1956, held by Wellcome Collection. Oeuvres philosophiques / de Maine de Biran ; publiées par V. Cousin., dated 1841, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 20 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

21 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Cousin, Victor-Gustave, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Victor Cousin en Allemagne, Lectures, 2011. Les lettres de Charles Waddington à Victor Cousin (1844–1863), L’institution philosophique française et la Renaissance : l’époque de Victor Cousin, 2022. Victor Cousin et la Renaissance. Annexe photographique, L’institution philosophique française et la Renaissance : l’époque de Victor Cousin, 2022. Les lettres de Christian Bartholmèss à Victor Cousin (1846–1856), L’institution philosophique française et la Renaissance : l’époque de Victor Cousin, 2022. 30. Visual and anatomical characteristics of teat defects, Animal - Science proceedings, 2025. THE BENEFITS AND LIMITATIONS OF DIGITAL TOOLS TO RETRIEVE THE EMOTIONS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY READERS OF PHILOSOPHY FROM MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, 2022. Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good: Increased by an Appendix on French Art, 2003. Rapport sur l'état de l'instruction publique dans quelques pays de l'Allemagne, et particulièrement en Prusse. Cours de l'histoire de la philosophie, 2018. Report On the State of Public Instruction in Prussia: Addressed to the Count De Montalivet, 2015. Philosophie morale (1820) - Introduction, 2019. Philosophie morale (1820) - Note sur les manuscrits du cours de 1819-1820, 2019. De la retórica a la estética: la gestación de la estética como filosofía de la literatura en España, Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 2022. Evaluation of tsunami inundation in the plain of Martil (north Morocco): Comparison of four inundation estimation methods, Natural Hazards Research, 2023. Giving a New Status to a Dyes Collection: A Contribution to the <i>Chromotope</i> Project, Heritage, 2023. Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux and the Symbolic Interpretation of Architectural Origins in 19th-Century France, Architectural Histories, 2018. Ecletismo e retórica na filosofia brasileira: de Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira (1769-1846) ao frei Francisco do Monte Alverne (1784-1858), Almanack. Patrick Geddes’s Influence on France and Beyond, Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2026. Les éditions des philosophes écossais par Théodore Jouffroy. Mouvement historique et réforme philosophique, Astérion, 2022. Bezerra de Menezes e Gonçalves de Magalhães: muito além do cérebro. Tentativas de enfrentamento ao materialismo científico do século XIX, Revista Brasileira de História, 2020.

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (1053181-6). Those registers additionally record the form Bibliothèque Victor Cousin.

16 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.

Fragments littéraires (1844) — Internet Archive. La société franc̜aise au XVIIe siècle d'après le Grand Cyrus de mlle de Scudéry (1873) — Internet Archive. Elements of Psychology: Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay on the Human ... (1838) — Internet Archive. Oeuvres de M. Victor Cousin Discours politiques avec une introduction sur les principes de la Révolution Française et du gouvernement représentatif. Sixième Série (1851) — Internet Archive. Cours de philosophie, professé à la faculté des lettres pendant l'année 1818 ...: sur le ... (1836) — Internet Archive. Cours de philosophie professé à la Faculté des lettres pendant l'année 1818 ... sur le fondement ... (1840) — Internet Archive. Fragments et souvenirs par Victor Cousin (1857) — Internet Archive. Premiers essais de philosophie par Victor Cousin (1855) — Internet Archive. Philosophie de Kant (1864) — Internet Archive. --Littérature-- (1849) — Internet Archive. Cours de philosophie (1840) — Internet Archive. Cours de philosophie, professé à la faculté des lettres pendant l'année 1818 ... (1836) — Internet Archive. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good — Project Gutenberg. Madame de Longueville: La Jeunesse de Madame de Longueville — Project Gutenberg. Madame de Chevreuse: Nouvelles études sur les femmes illustres et la société du 17e siècle — Project Gutenberg. The youth of Madame de Longueville, or new revelations of court and convent in the seventeenth century — Project Gutenberg.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 30 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 8 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 8 means 8 genuinely separate publishers of record. 9 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Victor Cousin studied at Lycée Charlemagne and Pensionnat normal. training under Pierre Laromiguière and Pierre Paul Royer-Collard is recorded. Étienne Vacherot, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien and Charles Bénard are recorded as having studied under Victor Cousin. the recorded working language is French.

The field of work recorded is history of philosophy. Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Blaise Pascal are recorded as an influence.

Employment is recorded with University of Paris. Positions recorded include member of the Chamber of Peers and director of École normale supérieure (Paris). Membership is recorded of Académie Française, Société héliographique and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works named in the authority record are Fragments philosophiques and On the True, the Beautiful, and the Good.

Work by Victor Cousin is recorded in the collections of Geldersch Landschap en Kasteelen.

Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Legion of Honour, Concours général and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.