Claude Dupuy

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Claude Dupuy (* 1545 in Paris ; † December 1, 1594 there ) was a French humanist of the 16th century. He was a student of the humanists Denis Lambin , Adrianus Turnebus and Jean Daurat and the lawyer Jacques Cujas . Claude had three sons: Christophe , Pierre and Jacques .

Claude Dupuy was a Paris lawyer and a leading figure among the French humanists and jurists who rallied around Jacques Cujas and Jacques-Auguste de Thou . In 1576 he became a member of parliament .

However, Dupuy, who wrote under the pseudonym Puteanus, was never able to publish his work. He collected a large number of documents. Denis Duval, who cataloged his library in 1595, listed around 300 letters and 2000 books. He bequeathed these to his two sons Pierre and Jacques. After their death they finally fell to the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

Codices from his collection are listed under the name Codex Puteanus . Among his manuscripts were the letters of Paul of Tarsus in Greek and Latin (BN grec. 107 & A), a collection of Tironian notes (BN lat. 8777), a copy by Publius Papinius Statius from the 9th century AD ., the Apologeticum of Tertullian (BN lat. 1623), a codex of Titus Livius from the 5th century AD and the so-called Excerpta Latina Barbari . He had received these and other writings from Corbie Abbey .

His correspondence with Gian Vincenzo Pinelli , an Italian humanist from Padua , has survived.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Latin translation of the name Dupuy ( French du puis = from the well )

literature

  • Jérôme Delatour: Les livres de Claude Dupuy. Une bibliothèque humaniste au temps des guerres de religion. 1998.
  • Raugei (eds.): Gian Vincenzo Pinelli et Claude Dupuy. Une correspondance entre deux humanistes. Florence 2001,
  • Gerald N. Sandy (Ed.): The Classical Heritage in France. Brill, Leiden 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME Dupuy, Claude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puteanus, Claudius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French humanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1545
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1594
Place of death Paris