André de Gouveia

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André de Gouveia (* 1497 in Beja ; † June 9, 1548 Coimbra ) was an important Portuguese humanist and educator of the Renaissance .

Live and act

André de Gouveia was born in Beja in 1497 and had two brothers, António and Marcial de Gouveia (1510–1556). From 1522 he attended the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris , which was run by his uncle Diogo de Gouveia, sen. (approx. 1471–1557) was led. Some of the students at the school came to European fame, such as Aires de Barbosa (approx. 1460–1540) a Hellenist at the University of Salamanca and the philologist Aquiles Estaço , he wrote commentaries on ancient texts. In 1528 André de Gouveia graduated from the University of Paris in the Seven Liberal Arts . Later followed a degree in theology .

His uncle made him head of the Collège de Sainte-Barbe , probably in 1529/1530 . He took over the role of Nicolas Cop who was appointed rector of the University of Paris on October 10, 1533 . Four years later André de Gouveia became rector of the University of Paris, but gave up this office a short time later in order to take over the leadership of Principal du Collège de Guyenne at the Collège de Guyenne in Bordeaux , where many Portuguese studied on July 15, 1534 . He succeeded the initiator of the college Jean de Tartas (1525–1588). He held this office until 1547 when he was invited by King John III. returned to Portugal to found the Colégio Real das Artes in Coimbra .

His educational writings were highly praised by Michel de Montaigne , who was a student at the Collège de Guyenne. In the first part of his "Essais" Montaigne speaks of his Portuguese teacher as "the greatest and noblest director in France".

André de Gouveia managed to get some of his Portuguese, Scottish and French colleagues from the "Colégio Bordalês" to come to the University of Coimbra - they were all compromised by the education of a Christian and learned man who lived in the secular sphere and not in the monastery realized.

Still, de Gouveia left few written texts. Of these, the regulations of the Colégio de Guiena , published under the title of the Schola Aquitanica , stand out .

André de Gouveia died early and unexpectedly in 1548.

Current reference

Many schools in Portugal are named after André de Gouveia, in the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris the Portuguese student residence (Résidence André de Gouveia) bears his name.

Works

  • Schola Aquitanica. (1583)
  • Quinque Universalibus.

literature

  • William Harrison Woodward: Studies in Education during the Age of the Renaissance, 1400-1600. Volume 2 of Contributions to the History of Education. CUP Archives, 1924, p. 139

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Feist Hirsch: Damião de Gois: The Life and Thought of a Portuguese Humanist, 1502-1574. Springer, 1967, p. 172 f.
  2. ↑ John C. Olin (Ed.); Desiderius Erasmus: Six Essays on Erasmus and a Translation of Erasmus' Letter to Carondelet, 1523. Fordham University Press, 1979, ISBN 0-8232-1024-3 , p. 82
personal data
SURNAME Gouveia, André de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese humanist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1497
PLACE OF BIRTH Be yes
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1548
Place of death Coimbra