Benoît Baudouin

Benoît Baudouin , Latinized Benedictus Balduinus , (* 16th century in Amiens , † 1632 ) was a French scholar of the 17th century .

life and work

According to Zedler's Universal Lexicon , Baudouin was the son of a shoemaker and also learned his father's craft. He graduated from the University in Paris and later headed the College of Troyes . He translated the tragedies of Seneca and wrote a treatise on antique shoes entitled Calceus antiquus et mysticus , published in Paris in 1615. Together with De caliga veterum by Giulio Negrone (Julius Nigronus), the work was relocated again in Amsterdam in 1667. Another edition of these two writings was carried out by Joan Frederik Nilant in 1711 in Leiden .

Christoph Weigel the Elder criticized Baudouin's assertion that the shoes were invented immediately after Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise in his work Illustration of the Commonly Useful Main Stands, printed in Regensburg in 1698 . In the same year Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel also mocked this statement and even suspected that Baudouin had probably spoken to the shoemakers here "because they might have made him his shoes for free". Baudouin's theory that Adam had already invented the shoe, incommoded by the thorny underground outside paradise and inspired by a conversation with the Almighty, amused William Edward Winks (1842–1926), who wrote a work on famous shoemakers, in the 19th century . Winks nevertheless appreciated the value of the extensive book: “Spite of its preposterous speculations, the work of the ex-shoemaker of Amiens is learned and valuable, contains a vast amount of curious lore in regard to a not unimportant subject, and helps to confirm his claim to the ambitious title of 'the learned Baudouin'. "

Baudouin had called these critics on the scene with sentences like the following: “Nemo quam stupidum hebetemque primum illum hominem dixerit, quin ei statim in mentem venerit, quomodo se pedesque suos incedendo posset a spinaculorum tribulorumque iniuria deffendere” - to the sic! According to the Holy Scriptures, God himself provided him with the first clothes after the fall, which he made from animal skins. "Hoc edoctus exemplo Adam eadem ratione pedum nuditati non consuleret?"

literature

• Balduinus, Benedictus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 3, Leipzig 1733, column 215.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Recueil de toutes les deliberations importantes prises depuis 1763 par le bureau d'administration du College de Louis-le-Grand et des colleges y reunis. . Simon, 1781, p. 451.
2. ↑ Balduinus, Benedictus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 3, Leipzig 1733, column 215.
3. ^ Benedicti Balduini Ambiani Calceus antiquus et mysticus . Dionysius Langlaeus, Paris 1615 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ B. Balduinus De calceo antiquo et Jul. Nigronus De caliga veterum. Accesserunt ex Q. Sept. Fl. Tertulliani, Cl. Salmasi [i], & Alb. Rvbeni [i] scriptis plurima ejusdem argumenti. In his Scriptores veteres quamplurimi explicantur, & emendantur, nec non res ipsa adjectis aeneis figuris illustrantur . Amsterdam 1667 ( digitized ). Another edition going back to this appeared in Leipzig in 1733, taken care of by Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : B. Balduinus De Calceo Antiquo, Et Jul. Nigronus De Caliga Veterum. Leipzig 1733 ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ B. Balduinus De Calceo Antiquo, Et Jul. Nigronus De Caliga Veterum: Accesserunt ex Q. Sept. Fl. Tertulliani, Cl. Salmasi [i], & Alb. Rvbeni [i] scriptis plurima ejusdem argumenti. In his Scriptores veteres quamplurimi explicantur, & emendantur, nec non res ipsa adjectis aeneis figuris illustrantur . Leiden 1711 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ Christoph Weigel: Illustration of the common-useful main stalls From which regents and their servants assigned in times of peace and war, bit on all artists and craftsmen: After every job and job, mostly drawn after life and brought in copper, even after Dero Origin, usable and memorable things, briefly but thoroughly described, and presented in a completely new way . Christoph Weigel, 1698, p. 645.
7. ^ Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel: Monthly conversations with some good friends of all kinds of books and other pleasant stories. The other print cleared of errors . Gleditsch, 1698, p. 48.
8. ^ William Edward Winks: Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers , New York 1882, p. 200 ( digitized ).
9. ↑ "Nobody will consider that first man so stupid and limited that it should not have occurred to him immediately how he could protect himself and his feet from injuries from thorns and thistles while walking around."
10. ↑ " Taught by this example, shouldn't Adam take care of the bare feet of his feet with the same method?"; Benoît Baudouin: Benedicti Balduini […] Calceus antiquus et mysticus . Paris 1615, p. 6 f.