Guillaume Fichet
Guillaume Fichet (right) presents Cardinal Bessarion with his rhetoric, which was printed in Paris in 1471 . Illumination in the dedication copy of the incunable , Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana , Membr. 53, fol. 1r
Guillaume Fichet (born September 16, 1433 in Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières , Savoy , † around 1480 in Rome ) was a French theologian and humanist .
Guillaume Fichet became prior of the Sorbonne in Paris in 1461 . In 1467 he became rector , in 1470 professor of rhetoric and university librarian. Together with Johannes Heynlin , he set up the first printing press in France in 1470 . Fichet was the ambassador of Louis XI. , later chamberlain of Pope Sixtus IV.
Web links
- Guillaume Fichet in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Works by Guillaume Fichet in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
- Digitized manuscripts in Swiss libraries
- Literature by and about Guillaume Fichet in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
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| SURNAME | Fichet, Guillaume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French theologian, humanist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1433 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1480 |
| Place of death | Rome |