François Charpentier

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François Charpentier (born February 15, 1620 in Paris , † April 22, 1702 in Paris ) was a French Graecist, Romanist , translator, lexicographer and man of letters.

life and work

In 1650 Charpentier published a translation of Xenophon's memorabilia from Greek and added a biography of Socrates , which was also translated into German. The still young Académie française then chose the 30-year-old among its members, where he would reside for 52 years. In 1663 the eloquent Charpentier wrote a kind of advertising pamphlet for the French East India Company on behalf of the Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert , which earned its author a seat in the newly founded Académie des Inscriptions .

In the mid-1670s, Charpentier anticipated the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes by advocating the inscription of the triumphal arch Porte Saint-Martin (Paris) in French instead of Latin and defending this modernist revolution in two books from 1676 and 1683.

Finally, Charpentier was given the task of writing the foreword, famous in Romance studies, to the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française , which finally appeared in 1694 .

Works

  • Les Choses mémorables de Socrate, ouvrage de Xénophon, traduit de grec en françois, avec la Vie de Socrate , nouvellement composée et recueillie des plus célèbres autheurs de l'Antiquité, Paris 1650 (3rd edition 1699, German: The image of a true and ohnpedantischen Philosophi, or Das Leben Socratis , from the French of Mr. Charpentier translated into German by Christian Thomas , Halle 1693)
  • La Cyropaedie, ou l'Histoire de Cyrus , traduite du grec de Xénophon, Paris 1659
  • Discours d'un fidèle sujet du roi touchant l'établissement d'une compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales , Paris 1665, also published by T. Le Divin marchand. Relation de la constitution de la Compagnie française des Indes orientales , Paris 1664 (German: The East Indian company, newly established in France with royal permission, reticles, laws and freedoms to everyone's required message from French into our German mother tongue, translated by Johann Christoph Wagenseil , Paris 1665)
  • Relation de l'établissement de la Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales , Paris 1665 (English: Wealthward ho! An account of the Establishment of the French East India Company , edited by Mario Serviable [* 1949], Sainte-Clotilde ( La Réunion) 1989)
  • Voyage du vallon tranquille. Nouvelle historique , 1673
  • Deffense de la langue françoise pour l'inscription de l'arc de triomphe dédié au Roy , Paris 1676, 1683
  • De l'Excellence de la langue françoise , 2 vols., Paris 1683, 1110 pages
  • (Foreword author) Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise , dédié au Roy, 2 vols., Paris 1694.

literature

  • Carpentariana, ou Recueil de pensées historiques, critique, morale, et de bons mots, de M. Charpentier , Paris 1724 ( digitized version )
  • Yasushi Noro: Une vie à la trace. Amable Bourzeis, Écrivain (1606-1672) . Classiques Garnier, Paris 2018, pp. 251–288.

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personal data
SURNAME Charpentier, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Graecist, Romanist, translator, lexicographer and man of letters
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1702
Place of death Paris