Guillaume Massieu

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Guillaume Massieu (born April 13, 1665 in Caen , † September 26, 1722 in Paris ) was a French Jesuit , classical philologist and Romanist .

life and work

Massieu studied with the Jesuits in Paris and taught in Rennes . During a postgraduate course in theology in Paris, he was released from the Jesuit order and took a position as tutor with Louis de Sacy . With Jacques de Tourreil (1656-1714) he translated from ancient Greek and in 1710 became professor of Greek at the Collège royal (today: Collège de France ).

Massieu was a member of the Académie française (1714) and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .

Massieu wrote the foreword to the second edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (Paris 1718) and left (ud T. Histoire de la poésie ) a history of French literature from the Middle Ages to the early 16th century.

Works

  • (Ed.) Jacques de Tourreil, Oeuvres , 4 vols., Paris 1721
  • Histoire de la poésie françoise. Avec une défense de la poésie , Paris 1739 (posthumously edited by his pupil de Sacy, son; the history of literature begins on p. 63)
  • (Translator) Oeuvres de Lucien , 6 vols., Paris 1781–1787 ( Lukian von Samosata )

literature

  • Augustin Théry, Notice sur l'abbé Massieu , Caen 1854

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personal data
SURNAME Massieu, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Jesuit, classical philologist and Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Caen
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1722
Place of death Paris