Étienne Baluze

Étienne Baluze (born November 24, 1630 in Tulle , Limousin , † July 28, 1718 in Paris ) was a French historian . In his fields ( church history , patristicism , medieval law) he was one of the most important scholars of his time.

Life

Baluze studied law and history in Toulouse , where he became secretary to Archbishop Petrus de Marca in 1656. In 1667 he became librarian Jean-Baptiste Colberts in Paris , 1689 professor of canon law at the Collège Royal and 1707 director of this institution. Because he had defended the right of the Cardinal of Bouillon to this land in his Histoire générale de la maison d'Auvergne (1708) and allegedly relied on forged documents, he was dismissed by Louis XIV in 1710 and expelled from Paris in 1711. After the king's death in 1715, he was able to return, but was not re-employed and died there three years later.

The main works of the roughly 60 books that Baluze wrote or edited are: Capitularia regum Francorum (1677); Conciliorum nova collectio (1683); Historia Paparum Avenionensium (1693); Miscellaneorum libri VII, s. collectio veterum monumentorum, quae hactenus latuerunt (1678–1715).

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Baluze, Étienne. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 361-362. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Jean Boutier (Ed.): Etienne Baluze, 1630–1718. Érudition et pouvoirs dans l'Europe classique. Presses universitaires de Limoges (PULIM), Limoges 2008, ISBN 978-2-84287-473-5 .
Jean Boutier: Stephanus Baluzius tutelensis. Étienne Baluze (1630-1718). Un savant tullois dans la France de Louis XIV. Editions de la rue Mémoire, Tulle 2007, ISBN 978-2-9519590-8-8 .
Jean Lebars: Etienne Baluze . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913.
Baluze, Etienne . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 297 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Literature by and about Étienne Baluze in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Étienne Baluze in the German Digital Library
Publications by and about Étienne Baluze in VD 17 .
Jörg Ulbert: Review of the two works by Jean Boutier on Baluze (see literature)

Remarks

↑ The date of birth is given in the BBKL and the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) as November 24, 1630, the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 mentions December 24, 1630.

personal data
SURNAME	Baluze, Etienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baluzius, Stephanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French historian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1630 or December 24, 1630
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tulle (Limousin)
DATE OF DEATH	July 28, 1718
Place of death	Paris

[1] The date of birth is given in the BBKL and the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) as November 24, 1630, the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 mentions December 24, 1630.