Marc Antoine Émile Alexis Giraud-Teulon, better known as Alexis Giraud-Teulon (27 August 1839,

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– 30 May 1916,

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), was a French academic, lawyer and translator.

Biography

Son of Félix Giraud-Teulon, ophthalmologist, member of the

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and great-grandson of the conventional Marc Antoine Alexis Giraud, he belonged to a Protestant family from La Rochelle. Licentiate in law, he became known by a series of publications on the history of institutions such as the mother among certain peoples of the antiquity. In 1874, he published a critical summary of

Johann Jakob Bachofen Johann Jakob Bachofen (22 December 1815 – 25 November 1887) was a Swiss antiquarian, jurist, philologist, anthropologist, and professor for Roman law at the University of Basel from 1841 to 1845. Bachofen is most often connected with h ...

's book, '' Das Mutterrecht'' (''The Maternal Right'', 1861), under the title ''Les Origines de la famille'' (''The Origins of the Family''), which was the most complete presentation, in French, of the doctrine of prehistoric

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and its survivals. He then taught

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and

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at the

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. He is credited with a translation of ''Geschichte der christlichen Kirche'' (''History of the Christian Church'', 1833), work of

Ignaz von Döllinger Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (; 28 February 179914 January 1890), also Doellinger in English, was a German theologian, Catholic priest and church historian who rejected the dogma of papal infallibility. Among his writings which proved con ...

, opponent of the

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. He also translated the posthumous work of

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, ''De Motu Animalium'' (''On the Movement of Animals''). On December 23, 1863, he changed his last name from Giraud to Giraud-Teulon.

Works

* ''La Mère chez certains peuples de l'antiquité'' (''The Mother among Some Peoples of the Antiquity''). Paris: Ernest Thorin, 1867. * ''La Royauté et la Bourgeoisie'' (''The Royalty and the Bourgeoisie''). Paris. 1871. * ''Les Origines du mariage et de la famille'' (''The Origins of Marriage and the Family''). Geneva: A. Cherbuliez, 1884. * ''Double péril social : L'Église et le Socialisme'' (''Double Social Peril: The Church and Socialism''). Paris: Guillaumin, 1895. * ''L'Exogamie chez les peuples primitifs'' (''Exogamy among Primitive Peoples''). Lyon: A. Rey, 1908.

Sources

* ''

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'', ed.

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and

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, 5th series, t. III, Paris, Ernest Leroux, January–February 1916, p. 427.

References

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