Jacques Dupuy
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Jacques Dupuy (* 1591 in Tours ; † November 17, 1656 Paris ) was a French humanist and librarian . In addition to his brothers Christophe and Pierre , he was the youngest son of Claude Dupuy . Jacques Dupuy used the pseudonym Jacobus Puteanus.
Jacques was prior of the monasteries of Saint-Sauveur-lès-Bray and Saint-Léon-en-Rouergue . After the death of Jacques-Auguste de Thou , he and his brother Pierre took over the humanistic academy, the Académie putéane . From 1645 he became head of the royal library together with Pierre, from which the Bibliothèque nationale de France emerged . The brothers had inherited a valuable collection of old manuscripts from their father , which after Jacques' death went to the royal library.
See also
- Excerpta Latina Barbari (important manuscript in the possession of Jacques Dupuy)
Footnotes
literature
- Philip J. Wolfe (ed.): Humanisme et politique: Lettres romaines de Christophe Dupuy à ses frères 1650–1654. Volume III. Fool, 2005, ISBN 382336152X .
Web links
- Herbert Jaumann: Handbook of scholarly culture in the early modern period: Dupuy, Jacques
- Herbert DuPuy: A Genealogical History of the Dupuy Family
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dupuy, Jacques |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Puteanus, Jacobus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French humanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1591 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tours |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1656 |
| Place of death | Paris |