Adrien Baillet
Adrien Baillet (born June 13, 1649 in La Neuville-en-Hez , France , † January 21, 1706 in Paris ) was a French theologian , historian and librarian .
Life
After attending the village school , his parents were unable to finance a higher education for him. After the Bishop of Bauvais became aware of him, he made it possible for him to study theology. Baillet then worked as a teacher in Beauvais and was ordained a priest in 1676 . In 1680 he moved to Paris, where he worked as a librarian for the Advocate General of the Parlements François-Chrétien de Lamoignon , where he created a 35-volume catalog raisonné .
Baillet is considered the first biographer of René Descartes . He was buried in the Paris church of St-Paul-des-Champs .
Publications (selection)
- Histoire de Hollande depuis la trève de ióop Jusqu'd 1690 (4 volumes 1693), a continuation by Grotius .
- Les Vies des saints (4 volumes 1701).
- Des Satires personalelles, traité historique et critique de celles qui portent le liter d'Anti (2 volumes 1689).
- La vie de monsieur Descartes (2 volumes 1691; one-volume new edition: La vie de monsieur Descartes , Paris: Éditions des Malassis, 2012).
- La vie de mr. Des-Cartes. Réduite en abregé (1692; new edition: Vie de Monsieur Descartes , Paris, La Table Ronde, 1992).
- Auteurs déguisés sous des noms étrangers, empruntes, & c. (1690).
- Jugemens des savans sur les principaux ouvrages des auteurs (9 volumes, 1685–1686).
literature
- Hugh Chisholm (Ed.): Baillet, Adrien , in: Encyclopædia Britannica , Volume 3 (11th edition 1911). Cambridge University Press , p. 219.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baillet, Adrien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French librarian, clergyman and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1649 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Neuville-en-Hez , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1706 |
| Place of death | Paris |