OZANAM, ANTOINE FREDERIC French scholar, was born at Milan on April 23, 1813. Antoine studied law at Paris, where he fell in with the Ampere family, Chateau briand, Lacordaire, Montalembert, and other leaders of the neo Catholic movement. In conjunction with other young men he founded in May 1833 the celebrated charitable society of St. Vincent de Paul, which numbered before his death upwards of two thousand members. In 1840 he became assistant professor of foreign literature at the Sorbonne, and in 1844 full professor. He died at Marseilles on, Sept. 8, 1853.
Ozanam was the leading historical and literary critic in the neo-Catholic movement in France during the first half of the r9th century. In contemporary movements he was an earnest advo cate of Catholic democracy and socialism, and of the view that the church should adapt itself to the changed political conditions consequent to the Revolution.
His works were published in eleven volumes (Paris, They include Deux chanceliers d'Angleterre, Bacon de Verulam et Saint Thomas de Cantorbery (Paris, 1836) ; Dante et la philosophie catholique an XIIleme siecle (Paris, 1839; 2nd ed., enlarged 1845) ;
Etudes germaniques (2 vols., Paris, 1847-49), translated by A. C. Glyn as History of Civilization in the Fifth Century (London, 1868) ; Documents inedits pour servir a l'histoire de l'Italie depuis le VIlleme siecle jusqu'au (Paris, 185o) ; Les poetes franciscains en Italie siecle (Paris, 1852). His letters have been partially translated into English by A. Coates (London, 1886).
There are French lives of Ozanam by his brother, C. A. Ozanam (Paris, 1882) ; Mme. E. Humbert (Paris, 188o) ; C. Huit (Paris, 1882) ; M. de Lambel (Paris, 1887) ; L. (Paris, 1888) ; and B. Faulquier (Paris, 1903). German lives by F. X. Karker (Pader born, 1867) and E. Hardy (Mainz, 1878) ; English biography by Miss K. O'Meara (Edinburgh, 1867 ; 2nd ed., London, 1878).