Guillaume Budé

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contemporary portrait of Guillaume Budé by Jean Clouet
Monument to the French humanist Budaeus in Paris

Guillaume Budé (Latin Guglielmus Budaeus ; born January 26, 1468 in Paris ; † August 20, 1540 ibid) was a French lawyer, philologist , humanist , diplomat and librarian at the court of Francis I. He was in close contact with other humanists of the time , including Erasmus of Rotterdam and Thomas More .

Along with Valla , Zasius and Alciato, he was a legal humanist and is considered to be one of the founders of the legal methodology mos gallicus , a method for developing Roman law by restoring original texts and taking historical relationships into account.

Life

In 1513 he was called to Rome by Pope Leo X to lead the Pontificio Collegio Greco . At the suggestion of Budé, King Francis I founded the Collège des trois langues or Collège des lecteurs du Roi in 1530 . The first dictionary of ancient Greek in Europe goes back to Budé.

Works

Libri V de Asse et partibus ejus , 1522
  • Pandects . Budé published the Roman Pandects using the historical-critical method. By comparing different manuscripts, he eliminated obvious errors in the text.
  • De Asse et partibus eius (1515), a book on the Roman currency.
  • Institution [= instruction] d'un prince . This prince's mirror is the only work by Budé written in French. It was written for the young Franz I. It is a collection of ancient texts, sayings and doctrinal sayings and representations of historical events, written with the intention of preparing the prince for his later task as king. H. to bring him the right insight for his political action and the love for science and art.
  • Commentarii , (1529), a dictionary mainly of legal and Roman terminology . The Commentarii later entered the Thesaurus (1572) of Robert Estienne .
  • Philologia . The book is a dialogue between Budé and Francis I about the philology, which Budé considered essential for the love of ancient languages ​​as well as for the refinement of customs and culture. Budé saw in Greek philosophy a preparation for Christianity and defended the study of the Greek language against the accusation of the Sorbonne that it was a preliminary stage of heresy .
  • Epistolae. - Basileae: Andr. Cartander (i.e. Cratander ), 1521.

Aftermath

The learned society Association Guillaume Budé, founded in 1917, refers to Guillaume Budé as a humanist and the first important translator of Greek texts into the French language .

Text output

  • Marie-Madeleine de La Garanderie, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi (eds.): Guillaume Budé: Sommaire et Epitome du livre De asse. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-251-34494-2

literature

Web links

Commons : Guillaume Budé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Roeck: The morning of the world . 1st edition. 2017, p. 685 .
  2. ↑ W. Heinse, Aufnehmer 1768–1783: Commentary on Volume 1, Munich, 2005, p. 692.
personal data
SURNAME Budé, Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guglielmus Budaeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French humanist, diplomat, philologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1468
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1540
Place of death Paris