Germain Vaillant de Guelis
Germain Vaillant de Guélis , Latin Germanus Valens Guellius (* 1516 or 1517 ; † 1587 ) was a French jurist , Catholic clergyman , Bishop of Orléans and classical philologist.
Vaillant de Guélis was chaplain of Caterina de 'Medici , abbot of Paimpont , conseiller clerc at the Parliament of Paris , president of the fifth chambre des enquêtes from 1567 and bishop of Orléans from 1585 to 1587 . Joseph Justus Scaliger , Pierre de Ronsard and Jean Dorat were among his friends. He is best known as a Virgil interpreter (usually simply called Germanus as such ). The modern declaration of yellowing begins with his comment .
Fonts (selection)
- P. Virgilius Maro et in eum commentationes et paralipomena Germani Valentis Guellii, PP. [Pimpontii], Ejusdem Virgilii Appendix cum Josephi Scaligeri commentariis et castigationibus. Antwerp 1575, (online) ; (another online copy) .
literature
- Doris Delacourcelle: Germain Vaillant de Guelis, Abbot of Paimpont (1516-1587). In: Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 16, 1954, pp. 336-361, (online at JSTOR) .
Web links
- Literature by and about Germain Vaillant de Guélis in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
- CERL Thesaurus: Vaillant de Guélis, Germain (1516–1587)
Individual evidence
- ^ So Georg Nicolaus Knauer : Virgil and Homer. In: Rise and decline of the Roman world, Vol. II 31, 2. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1981, p. 874, (online) .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vaillant de Guelis, Germain |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Germanus Valens Guellius (Latin) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer, Catholic clergyman and classical philologist, Bishop of Orléans |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1517 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1587 |