Diane de Guldencrone
{{Short description|French historian (1848–1930)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Diane de Guldencrone
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| birth_name = Diane Marguerite Gabrielle Victoire Clémence de Gobineau
| birth_date = {{birth date|1848|9|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Paris, Île-de-France, Second French Republic
| death_date = {{death date and age|1930|12|1|1848|9|13|df=y}}
| death_place = Rome, Lazio, Kingdom of Italy
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| occupation = Writer, historian
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| known_for =
| notable_works = L'Achaïe féodale : étude sur le Moyen Âge en Grèce (1205-1456)
L'Italie byzantine : étude sur le haut Moyen Âge (400-1050)
| spouse = Ode of Güldencrone
| children = Vilhelm Christian Joseph
Huges Viggo Arthur Joseph Marie
Marie Dominique Cecilie Christine Caroline Clémence
Christian Carl Marie Joseph
Marie Sophie Frederikke
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Diane de Guldencrone (née de Gobineau; 13 September 1848 – 1 December 1930) was a French historian and writer.
Biography
Diane Marguerite Gabrielle Victoire Clémence de Gobineau{{cite book|language=fr|title=Études gobiniennes|publisher=Klincksieck|location=Paris|date=1966|page=95}} was born in Paris, the eldest daughter of diplomat, politician and writer Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882) and Clémence Monnerot (1816–1911).
In 1866, she married Danish baron Ode of Güldencroneor Güldencrone, Gyldenkrone (1840–1880) in Athens, Greece. Baron Güldencrone was a marine officier and aide-de-camp to King George I of Greece.{{cite book|language=fr|first=Jean-Hervé|last=Donnard|author-link=Jean-Hervé Donnard|title=Gobineau à Athènes, 1864–1868 : exposition commémorative|publisher=Institut français d'Athènes|date=1967}} The couple had five children: Wilhelm (1867–1878), Arthur (1869–1895), Clémence (1872–1891), Christian (1874–1875) and Marie (1876–1890), who all died before their mother.{{cite web |language=da|url=https://finnholbek.dk/getperson.php?personID=I33131&tree=2 |title=Ove baron Gyldenkrone|website=finnholbek.dk|access-date=}}{{cite book|language=fr|first=Jean|last=Boissel|author-link=Jean Boissel|title=Gobineau, l'Orient et l'Iran : 1816-1860. Prolégomènes et essai d'analyse|publisher=Klincksieck|location=Paris|date=1974|page=80}}
Diane de Guldencrone wrote two books: one about the history of Medieval Greece (spanning from the creation of the Principality of Achaea in 1205 to the siege of Athens by the Turks in 1456), and one about the history of Byzantine Italy. She died in Rome.
Works
- {{cite book|language=fr|title=L'Achaïe féodale : étude sur le Moyen Âge en Grèce (1205-1456)|publisher=Ernest Leroux|location=Paris|date=1886|url=https://archive.org/details/lachaefodale00guld/page/n5}}
- {{cite book|language=fr|title=L'Italie byzantine : étude sur le haut Moyen Âge (400-1050)|publisher=Ernest Leroux|location=Paris|date=1914|url=https://archive.org/details/litaliebyzantine00guld/page/n7}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book|language=fr|title=Autres fragments inédits des Souvenirs de Diane de Guldencrone|publisher=M.-L. Concasty and A. B. Duff|series=Études gobiniennes |date=1968–1969|pages=11–102}}
External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Guldencrone |sopt=t}}
- [https://fr.muzeo.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_moyenne_def/public/oeuvres/peinture/patrimoine/portrait_de_diane_de_gobineau52463.jpg?itok=JrQXJ8Ye A portrait of Diane de Gobineau as a child] by Germann-August von Bohn
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