Pierre Coste

Pierre Coste (born October 27, 1668 in Uzès , † January 24, 1747 in Paris ) was a French theologian, printer and translator.

Live and act

He came from a Reformed family . Pierre Coste was the second of sixteen children of the woolen cloth merchant Barthélemy Coste (1625–1707) and his wife Marguerite Verdier. In his childhood, Pierre Coste lived with his maternal grandparents near Anduze , where he also went to school.

After the repeal of the Edict of Nantes , Édit de Nantes on October 18, 1685 with the Edict of Fontainebleau, Édit de Fontainebleau by the French King Louis XIV , Pierre Coste was forced to leave France. In 1684 he went to the University in Geneva , where he heard lectures including the Cartesian oriented philosopher Jean-Robert Chouet (1642 to 1731). In May, Pierre Coste met Charles Pacius de la Motte (approx. 1667–1751), who became his lifelong friend. Later, from spring 1686 to April 1687, Coste studied philosophy and theology in Lausanne and then until April 1688, theology in Zurich . Eventually he moved to the University of Leiden where he completed his theological studies with Friedrich Spanheim and Stephanus le Moine .

In 1697 he left Holland for England . Already in Holland he made the acquaintance of John Locke , with whom he became friends and who invited him to England. Coste was also close friends with Pierre des Maizeaux (1666–1745), both of whom often visited the Rainbow Coffee House , a meeting place and the like. a. of the French exiles in London's Fleet Street . He translated many of the works of the English philosopher and a number of other works, such as Isaac Newton , Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, from English into French:

Christianisme raisonnable 1695
L'Éducation des enfants 1698
L'Essai sur l'entendement humain 1700
L'Optique de Newton 1722
L'Usage de la raillerie de Shaftesbury 1710.

He was also in frequent correspondence with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . At the age of almost sixty-six he married Marie de Laussac († 1736), the daughter of a military chaplain, in 1735. On November 25, 1742, Pierre Coste became a member of the Royal Society .

literature

Magaret E. Rumbold: Traducteur huguenot: Pierre Coste. P. Lang, New York, 1991 ISBN 0-8204-1270-8

Web links

Wikisource: Pierre_Coste - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

↑ Marie-Nicolas Bouillet , Alexis Chassang (ed.): Pierre Coste. In: Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de geographie , 1878.
↑ Giovanni Santinello; Gregorio Piaia: Models of the History of Philosophy: Volume II: From Cartesian Age to Brucker. Springer, Dortrecht; Heidelberg, London, New York, 2010 ISBN 978-90-481-9506-0 , p. 78 f.
^ Rebekka Horlacher: Education theory before education theory: The Shaftesbury reception in Germany and Switzerland in the 18th century. Königshausen & Neumann, 2004 ISBN 3-8260-2798-1 , p. 28

personal data
SURNAME	Coste, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Costus, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French printer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH	Uzes
DATE OF DEATH	January 24, 1747
Place of death	Paris

[1] Marie-Nicolas Bouillet , Alexis Chassang (ed.): Pierre Coste. In: Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de geographie , 1878.

[2] Giovanni Santinello; Gregorio Piaia: Models of the History of Philosophy: Volume II: From Cartesian Age to Brucker. Springer, Dortrecht; Heidelberg, London, New York, 2010 ISBN 978-90-481-9506-0 , p. 78 f.

[3] Rebekka Horlacher: Education theory before education theory: The Shaftesbury reception in Germany and Switzerland in the 18th century. Königshausen & Neumann, 2004 ISBN 3-8260-2798-1 , p. 28