Paul Acker

Paul-Théodore Acker
Paul-Théodore Acker
	Paul Acker
Born	September 14, 1874; Saverne, Bas-Rhin, France
Died	June 27, 1915 (aged 40); Thann, Haut-Rhin, France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Writer, journalist

Paul-Théodore Acker (14 September 1874 – 27 June 1915) was a French-language writer of popular novels.^[1]

Biography

Birthplace in Saverne

Paul Acker was born on 14 September 1874 in Saverne.

A journalist, he contributed to Le Gaulois, L'Écho de Paris, Revue des deux Mondes, L'Illustration, Revue de Paris, and Revue critique des idées et des livres.

On 27 June 1915, he was killed in a car accident while on military service near the Thann front. He was buried in Saverne on 11 August 1922. A memorial stele was erected in his memory by the Souvenir français in Goldbach.^[2] Charles Maurras paid him posthumous tribute in his book Tombeaux and mentioned his membership in the Action française.^[3]

Selected works

Dispensé de l'Article 23 (preface by Willy, illustrated cover by Charles Léandre), 1898, H. Simonis-Empis
Un mari sans femme, 1902, Librairie Molière
Petites confessions. Visites et portraits, 1905
La Petite Madame de Thianges, 1906, Calmann Lévy
Le Désir de vivre, 1907, Calmann Lévy
Œuvres sociales des femmes, 1908, Plon-Nourrit Read online
Le Soldat Bernard, 1909, Fayard
Les Exilés, 1911, Plon (several editions until 1920)
Le Beau Jardin, 1910, Plon (several editions until 1919)
Une ville industrielle alsacienne: Mulhouse, 1912
Les deux cahiers, 1912, Plon-Nourrit Read online
Les deux amours, 1914
Les Demoiselles Bertram, 1914, Plon-Nourrit
Trois tombes, 1916, Plon-Nourrit
L'Oiseau vainqueur, 1916, Flammarion
Entre deux rives, 1917, Plon
Colmar : une ville alsacienne, 1919, Éd. de la Haute-Alsace
Tante Babiole - Collection Stella ^{[volume & issue needed]}
Les Deux Cahiers - Collection Stella ^{[volume & issue needed]}
Les Exilés - Select-Collection ^{[volume & issue needed]}
Les Exilés, preface by Jean-Noël Grandhomme, Éditions Laborintus, Lille-Paris, 2016, ISBN 979-10-94464-12-0

Distinctions

Paul Acker was awarded the first Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française for his body of work in 1915.
Paul Acker is listed among the writers who died for their country on the Panthéon's list of people cited.

Notes and references

^ Julia Schroda (2017). "Acker, Paul". In Roland Recht and Jean-Claude Richez (ed.). Dictionnaire culturel de Strasbourg, 1880-1930. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg. p. 23. ISBN 978-2-8682-0988-7.
^ "Site du Souvenir français". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
^ Maurras 1921.

Bibliography

Henry Bordeaux, Trois tombes. (La Prière pour les absents. Max Doumic. Paul Acker. Maurice Deroure. Les Honneurs aux morts.), Plon-Nourrit, Paris, 1916, XIII-291 p.
Alphonse Wollbrett, "Paul Acker", in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 1, p. 13.
Julia Schroda (2017). "Acker, Paul". In Roland Recht and Jean-Claude Richez (ed.). Dictionnaire culturel de Strasbourg, 1880-1930. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg. p. 23. ISBN 978-2-8682-0988-7..
Maurras, Charles (1921). "Paul Acker et Fabrice Cléret". Tombeaux. Nouvelle Librairie nationale. pp. 69–71.

[1] Julia Schroda (2017). "Acker, Paul". In Roland Recht and Jean-Claude Richez (ed.). Dictionnaire culturel de Strasbourg, 1880-1930. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg. p. 23. ISBN 978-2-8682-0988-7.

[2] "Site du Souvenir français". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2023-03-16.

[FOOTNOTEMaurras1921-3] Maurras 1921.

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