François de La Mothe le Vayer
François de La Mothe le Vayer (* 1588 in Paris ; † May 9, 1672 ibid) was a French antiquarian , philosopher and moralist . He acted as an educator at the French royal court.
In 1639 he became a member of the Académie française and in the same year received the commission from the Queen Mother Anna of Austria to raise her younger son Philip of Orléans . After the pedagogue had successfully carried out this task, he was entrusted with the completion of education by King Louis XIV in 1652 .
He founded the historical Pyrrhonism in 1668 .
La Mothe le Vayer was a contemporary of René Descartes and Thomas Hobbes and a member of the then small academic circles of contemporary relevance. His historical Pyrrhonism, which was only laid down at the end of his life, is an early script of skepticism , to put it simply, La Mothe le Vayer formulates that it should not be the historian's job to uncover every detail of antiquity.
Molière wrote a poem for him on the occasion of his son's death.
supporting documents
- ↑ printed in Jean Firges : Molière: "The misanthrope." Sonnenberg, Annweiler 2004 ISBN 3933264316 , p. 112
literature
- François de Lamothe le Vayer . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 433.
- Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Magali Seijido, Remarques et observations sur la langue française. Histoire et évolution d'un genre , Paris 2011 (including on François de La Mothe Le Vayer)
Web links
- Literature by and about François de La Mothe le Vayer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- François de La Mothe Le Vayer at Project Gutenberg .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | La Mothe le Vayer, François de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French antiquarian, philosopher and moralist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1588 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1672 |
| Place of death | Paris |