Claude Gros de Boze

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Claude Gros de Boze

Claude Gros de Boze (born January 28, 1680 in Lyon , † September 10, 1753 in Paris ) was a French archaeologist , bibliophile , numismatist , member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Origin and advancement

Claude Gros de Boze came from the Lyon families Gros (on the father's side) and de Boze (on the mother's side). He attended the Trinity School of Jesuits in Lyon, studied law in Paris and worked early on as writer and archaeologist; from 1702 he published on relevant topics. Through contacts with Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, marquis de Magny (1643–1721), Jean Hardouin , Marc-Antoine Oudinet (1643–1712) and Jean Foy-Vaillant (1632–1706) he gained access to the coin and antiquity collection ( Cabinet des Médailles ) of the king and to the court of Madame , Liselotte von der Pfalz . In 1705 he entered the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as a “student” ( élève ), a year later he became a full member ( associé and pensionnaire ) and immediately (until 1743) Secrétaire perpétuel (executive director). His predecessor was Paul Tallemant the Younger , whom de Boze considered incapable.

Work in the Académie des inscriptions

After Jean-Paul Bignon gave it new statutes in 1701, it was left to de Boze to raise the academy to an international scientific level. He began to collect and publish the academy lectures and to write an appreciation for all deceased members. The first volume of his Histoire de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres appeared in 1710, the 15th and last volume he was in charge of in 1743. 11 volumes were translated into German by Luise Gottsched and appeared under the title History of the Royal Academy of Beautiful The sciences at Paris which also contain countless treatises from all the free arts, learned languages ​​and antiquities (Leipzig / Vienna 1749–1757).

Member of other academies and private life

In 1715 de Boze was elected to the Académie française (seat no. 34). In 1719 he became head of the Royal Medal Cabinet (whose holdings he doubled), and in 1727 a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture . From 1740 he belonged to the Prussian Academy of Sciences , from 1749 to the Royal Society and from 1751 to the Accademia Etrusca in Cortona .

In 1732 he married Charlotte Philippine de Châtre du Cangé († 1789). All three children died shortly after birth. Except for a trip to Holland, he never left Paris. He died in 1753 at the age of 73.

Works

  • Traité historique du jubilé des Juifs . Du Bois, Paris 1702.
  • Presenting curious show Müntzen to the famous royal academists at Paris the most noble deeds of Louis the great with historical explanations . Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis-le-Grand, avec des explications historiques. Baldinger, Baden 1705.
  • Dissertation on le culte que les anciens ont rendu à la déesse de la Santé . Pierre Cot, Paris 1705. (dedicated to Archbishop Claude de Saint-Georges of Lyon, 1634–1714)
  • Dissertation on le Janus des anciens, et sur quelques médailles qui y ont rapport . Pierre Cot, Paris 1705. (dedicated to Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, marquis de Magny)
  • Explication d'une inscription antique trouvée depuis peu à Lyon, où sont décrites les particularitez des sacrifices que les anciens appeloient tauroboles . Pierre Cot, Paris 1705. (dedicated to Jean-Paul Bignon )
  • Histoire de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres, avec les Mémoires de littérature tirés des registres de cette académie . 15 vols. Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1710–1743.
    • (Part German edition) History of the Royal Academy of Fine Sciences in Paris which also contains innumerable treatises from all the free arts, learned languages ​​and antiquities . 11 vols. Krauß, Leipzig / Vienna 1749–1757. (Translator: Luise Gottsched)
  • (Ed.) Medailles sur les principaux evenements du regne entier de Louis le Grand, avec des explications historiques . Paris 1723.
  • (with Claude-Pierre Goujet, 1697–1767, and Pierre Lalemant, 1622–1673) Histoire de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres depuis son établissement, avec les éloges des académiciens morts depuis son renouvellement . 3 vols. Hippolyte-Louis Guérin, Paris 1740.
  • Histoire suivie de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres depuis son établissement, avec les éloges des académiciens morts, le catalog et les différentes éditions de leurs ouvrages . 2 vols.Changuion, Amsterdam 1743.
  • Demetrius Soter, ou le Retablissement de la famille royale sur le throne de Syrie . Paris 1745.

literature

  • Catalog des livres du cabinet de M. de Boze . Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1745.
  • Catalog des livres du cabinet de M. de Boze . Gabriel Martin / Guérin / Delatour, Paris 1753.
  • Catalog des livres provenans de la bibliothèque de feu M. de Boze, dont la vente sera indiquée par affiches. Gabriel Martin, Paris 1754.
  • Histoire de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres . Vol. 25. Paris 1754, pp. 259-278. (Appreciation)

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personal data
SURNAME Boze, Claude Gros de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gros de Boze, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French archaeologist, bibliophile, numismatist, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1753
Place of death Paris