Gabriel Compayré

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]

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]

• Histoire critique des doctrines de l’éducation en France (1879)
• Histoire de la pédagogie. (extended version of Histroire critique, published after 1879) - translated by W.H. Payne (1888). History of Pedagogy.
• 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.

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