Frédéric Marguet

Fréderic Marguet (Algiers, 11 June 1874 — Villeneuve-Loubet, 2 June 1951) was a French Navy officer. He was a prominent professor of navigation for students of the École navale and merchant navy, and authored a number of courses on the practice and history of maritime navigation.

Frédéric Marguet
Born11 June 1874 
Algiers 
Died2 June 1951  (aged 76)
Villeneuve-Loubet 

Biography

Marguet started studying at the École navale in 1891. He graduated first of his class. After serving at sea for a dozen years, he returned to the École navale as a professor, first in naval architecture, then in astronomy and navigation. He spent the rest of his career there, first as an active duty officer, and later as a professor in residence, a status reserved for officers with special abilities. [1]

After reaching the age limit in 1933, with the rank of captain, Marguet remained at the École navale as a civilian archivist secretary, in fact working as a Director of studies. He retired in Paris in 1937, and later in Villeneuve-Loubet in 1940.[1]

Marguet authored two reference textbook: Cours d'astronomie de l'École Navale and Cours de navigation et de compas. [1]

He also authored history books: Histoire de la longitude à la mer au XVIIIe siècle about the history of longitude, and Histoire générale de la navigation du XVe au XXe siècle.[1]

Works
  • Marguet, Frédéric (1913). Cours de navigation et de compas de l’École navale. Paris: Challamel. OCLC 31713272.
  • Marguet, Frédéric (1916). Cours d'astronomie de l’École navale. Paris: Challamel. OCLC 1002104874.
  • Marguet, Frédéric (1917). Histoire de la longitude à la mer au XVIIIe siècle, en France. Paris: Challamel. OCLC 612710194.
  • Marguet, Frédéric (1931). Histoire générale de la navigation du XVe au XXe siècle. Paris: Société d'éditions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales. OCLC 424071897.
  • Marguet, Frédéric (1934). La Distribution des marées à la surface du globe. Paris.

Citations
  1. Taillemite (2002), p. 355.

References
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