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Hippolyte Taine

French literary critic and historian (1828-1893)

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Hippolyte Taine was a French literary critic and historian who lived from 1828 to 1893 and became influential in how people analyzed literature and history during his time. He is remembered as an important figure in 19th-century French intellectual life, though the specific reasons for his influence are not detailed here.

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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is also remembered for his attempts to provide a scientific account of literature.

Taine had a profound effect on French literature; Maurice Baring wrote in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica that "the tone which pervades the works of Zola, Bourget and Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's." Out of the trauma of 1871, Taine has been said by one scholar to have "forged the architectural structure of modern French right-wing historiography."