Gabriel Naudé
Gabriel Naudé , Latinized Naudaeus (born February 2, 1600 in Paris , † July 10, 1653 in Abbeville ), was a French scholar and librarian .
Life
After studying literature , philosophy and medicine , he mainly worked as a librarian. In this capacity he was in the service of the cardinals Giovanni Francesco Bagni (1578–1641) and Francesco Barberini (1597–1679) in Rome , before he opened the first library for the Parisian in ten years, during which he traveled tirelessly in Europe City palace of the cardinal and minister Jules Mazarin (1602–1662) built. On Mazarin's order, he acquired several thousands of precious and rare books and manuscripts .
The librarian became famous in particular for his writing: Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque (" Advice on building a library"), written in 1627 , the first French manual on librarianship . In his works he dealt with esotericism and magic , which he divided into white magic (healing, protective), black magic (harmful), divine magic and natural magic, with the latter subordinating astronomy , chemistry and other sciences . Another focus of his research were the Rosicrucians .
Gabriel Naudé died in Abbeville in 1653 at the age of 53.
Mazarin's first library was largely closed when he was forced into exile by the Fronde . The preserved books, together with the second collection built up by the cardinal, formed the original fund of the Bibliothèque Mazarine in the Collège des Quatre Nations .
Factory selection
- 1623: Instruction à la France sur la Verité de l'Histoire des Frères de la Roze-Croix ... 1623, Paris, François Julliot
- 1625: Apologie pour tous les grands personnages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de magie , 1625, The Hague, Adrien Vlac
- 1627: Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque , first edition 1627, second edition 1644, new edition after the copy in the Sainte-Geneviève library 1994, Paris, Klincksieck, ISBN 2-252-02730-4
- 1630: Addition à l'histoire de Louis XI , first edition 1630, new edition based on the text of the first edition 1999, Paris, Fayard, ISBN 2-213-60179-8
- 1633: Bibliographia Politica , first edition 1633, Venice. New edition from 2010, ISBN 978-1166201166
- 1639: Considérations politiques sur les coups d'estat . First edition 1639, new edition by Le Promeneur. - ISBN 2-07-077275-6 , German-language first edition: Politisches Bedencken über die Staats-Streich, Leipzig 1668.
- 1647: Quinque quaestionum latro-philologicarum , 1647, Paris, Chouet
- 1651: Causae Kempenses conjectio pro curia Romana , 1651, Paris, Cramoisy
literature
- Friedrich Meinecke : The idea of the raison d'être in modern history , Berlin 1929, pp. 246-258.
- James V. Rice: Gabriel Naudé, 1600-1653 , 1939, Baltimore (Maryland), The Johns Hopkins Press.
- Jack Alden Clarke: Gabriel Naudé, 1600-1653 , 1970, Hamden, Archon Books.
- Peter S. Donaldson: Machiavelli and the Mystery of State , Cambridge (Mass.) 1988, pp. 141-187.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gabriel Naudé in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gabriel Naudé on the side of the Department of Library Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin ( Memento of 30 June 2007 at the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive
- Notice biographique on the site de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Individual evidence
- ↑ today Bibliothèque nationale de France , rue Richelieu
- ↑ today Institut de France
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Naudé, Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French scholar and librarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1600 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1653 |
| Place of death | Abbeville |