Jacques Grevin

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Jacques Grevin

Jacques Grévin (* 1538 in Clermont-en-Beauvaisis , today Clermont , Département Oise , † November 5, 1570 in Turin , Piedmont ), French playwright and poet.

Life

Grévin was born in Clermont-en-Beauvais in 1538 in modest circumstances. His uncle Pierre de Prong , who raised him after the early death of his father, sent him to Paris to study medicine in 1550, where he also became a student of the poet and humanist Pierre de Ronsard . After several stays in England he became personal physician and advisor to Princess Margaret of Savoy , at whose court in Turin he died in 1570.

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Plays
  • La trésorière (comedy, 1558)
  • César (tragedy, 1560)
  • Les Esbahis (Comedy, 1560)
Poems
  • Pastorale à très illustrious princesse
  • La Gélodacrye
  • L'Olympe .

Work edition

  • Lucien Pinvert (Ed.): Théâtre complet et poésies choisies . Garnier, Paris 1922.

literature

Essays
  • Richard Aldington : J. Grévin . In: Ders .: French Studies and reviews . Books for Libraries, Freeport, NY 1967 (reprint of London 1926 edition), pp. 92-101.
  • Jean Colombe: Grevin . In: Ders .: Portraits d'ancêtres. Quelques médecins du temps passé . Editions l'Hippocrate 1949 (Hippocrate. Revue d'humanisme medical; 16).
  • Léon Dorez: La mort de J. Grévin. In: Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire . Paris 1899, ISSN  0399-9742 , pp. 325-328.
  • Bernard Weinberg: The sources of Grevin's ideal on comedy and tragedy . In: Modern Philology , vol. 45 (1947), p. 46ff. ISSN  0026-8232
Books
  • Franca Bevilacqua Caldari: "Jacques Grévin" di Guillaume Colletet . Schena, Fasano 1988, ISBN 88-7514-153-3 .
  • M. Maloigne: J. Grévin, sa vie, son œuvre - Laval, Parnéoud, 1926.
  • Lucien Pinvert: Jacques Grévin (1538–1570). Sa vie, ses écrits, ses amis; étude biographique et littéraire . Fontemoing, Paris 1898 (also dissertation, University of Nancy 1898).
  • Rigo Bienaimé, Dora: Grévin poeta satirico e altri saggi sulla poesia del Cinquecento Frances . Giardini, Pisa 1967.
  • Valérie Sinn-wittchow: "Caesar's" entry into tragedy. Marc-Antoine Muret , Jacques Grévin and the French humanist drama . Lang publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60589-9 (also dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin 2010).
  • Henri Weber: La création poétique au XVIe siècle en France. De Maurice Scève à Agrippa d'Aubigné . New edition Éditions Nizet, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-7078-1090-8 , pp. 559ff. (also dissertation, University of Paris).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contents: Jacques Coitier , Jacques Grévin, Claude Perrault , Georges Mareschal , René Laënnec
personal data
SURNAME Grevin, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1538
PLACE OF BIRTH Clermont-en-Beauvaisis , Picardy , France
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1570
Place of death Turin , Duchy of Savoy