The New International Encyclopædia/Blaze de Bury, Ange Henri

BLAZE DE BURY, blȧz′ de bụ′rē̇′, Ange Henri (1813-88). A French author. He was born in Avignon, and was a son of the author Castil Blaze. In 1839 he published his first comedy in verse, Le Souper chez le commandeur, the first of a series of contributions to the Revue des Deux Mondes, with which publication he was associated for forty years. Under the influence of the Romanticists he devoted himself to the study of German literature, and in 1840 published his translation of Goethe's Faust (14th ed. 1880), a work which obtained a wide circulation. His other works on the German poets include Ecrivains et poètes de l'Allemagne (1846); Les poésies de Goethe (1862); Les écrivains modernes de l'Allemagne (1868). His wife, Madame Pauline Rose Stewart Blaze de Bury, was well known as a writer under the pseudonyms 'Arthur Dudley' and 'Maurice Flassan.' She also published, under her own name, Voyage en Autriche, en Hongrie et en Allemagne (1851).