Paul-Théodore Acker (14 September 1874 – 27 June 1915) was a French-language writer of popular novels.

Biography

Paul Acker was born on 14 September 1874 in Saverne.

A journalist, he contributed to Le Gaulois, L'Écho de Paris, Revue des deux Mondes, L'Illustration, Revue de Paris, and Revue critique des idées et des livres.

On 27 June 1915, he was killed in a car accident while on military service near the Thann front. He was buried in Saverne on 11 August 1922. A memorial stele was erected in his memory by the Souvenir français in Goldbach. Charles Maurras paid him posthumous tribute in his book Tombeaux and mentioned his membership in the Action française.

Selected works Dispensé de l'Article 23 (preface by Willy, illustrated cover by Charles Léandre), 1898, H. Simonis-Empis Un mari sans femme, 1902, Librairie Molière Petites confessions. Visites et portraits, 1905 La Petite Madame de Thianges, 1906, Calmann Lévy Le Désir de vivre, 1907, Calmann Lévy Œuvres sociales des femmes, 1908, Plon-Nourrit Read online Le Soldat Bernard, 1909, Fayard Les Exilés, 1911, Plon (several editions until 1920) Le Beau Jardin, 1910, Plon (several editions until 1919) Une ville industrielle alsacienne: Mulhouse, 1912 Les deux cahiers, 1912, Plon-Nourrit Read online Les deux amours, 1914 Les Demoiselles Bertram, 1914, Plon-Nourrit Trois tombes, 1916, Plon-Nourrit L'Oiseau vainqueur, 1916, Flammarion Entre deux rives, 1917, Plon Colmar : une ville alsacienne, 1919, Éd. de la Haute-Alsace Tante Babiole - Collection Stella Les Deux Cahiers - Collection Stella Les Exilés - Select-Collection Les Exilés, preface by Jean-Noël Grandhomme, Éditions Laborintus, Lille-Paris, 2016,

Distinctions Paul Acker was awarded the first for his body of work in 1915. Paul Acker is listed among the writers who died for their country on the Panthéon's list of people cited.

Notes and references

See also Pierre Bucher

Bibliography Henry Bordeaux, Trois tombes. (La Prière pour les absents. Max Doumic. Paul Acker. Maurice Deroure. Les Honneurs aux morts.), Plon-Nourrit, Paris, 1916, XIII-291 p. Alphonse Wollbrett, "Paul Acker", in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 1, p. 13. .