Jean-Baptiste de Rocoles

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Jean-Baptiste de Rocoles (* 1620 in Béziers , Languedoc, † 1696 in Toulouse ) was a French historian who changed religion several times. He was a Catholic in France and a Protestant in Holland .

He came from a noble family, chose the clergy and entered the Benedictine order , where he learned Greek and Latin. He also practiced law , became protonotarius of the Roman chair, councilor to King Ludwig , almsman , royal French historian and doctor of the law faculty at the University of Paris .

In 1672 he gave up his offices, went to Geneva and, allegedly because of the errors of the papal church, converted to the evangelical reformed religion .

The Kurbrandenburg historian Martin Schoock died in 1668 and left the history of the Brandenburg region unfinished. Elector Friedrich Wilhelm the Great summoned Rocoles to Berlin in 1673 and appointed him councilor and historian. He worked out the history of the Brandenburg electors from the Hohenzollern house . The treatise on the false Woldemar showed, however, that he had not got very far with Brandenburg history.

In May 1675 he took his leave and went to Leiden . But the Protestant church probably didn't pay enough and so he moved back to France in 1687 and wanted to rejoin the Roman church. But since no one wanted to give him his lucrative jobs again, he went to Holland again and was reformed. Between 1681 and 1683 he had published in The Hague . Finally the Roman Church brought him back and gave him his canonical back.

He has translated various old writers such as Herodotus and Tacitus into French. He continued the work Description Generale du Monde , begun by Johannes Boterus and Petrus Davity .

Works

  • Abrégé methodique de l'histoire de la republique de Venise. Depuis son Origine jusques au dernier Siege & Perte de Candie , Geneva 1673.
  • Ziska, le redoutable aveugle ; J. Moukée, 1685.
  • The history of infamous impostors, or, The lives & actions of several notorious counterfeits ; Printed for William Cademan ..., 1683.
  • The lives and actions of several notorious counterfeits, who from the most abject and meanest of the people have usurped the titles of emperors, kings, and princes ; Printed for William Whitwood ..., 1686.
  • Les imposteurs insignes, ou, Histoires de plusieurs hommes de néant, des toutes nations qui ont usurpé la qualité d'empereurs, roys & princes ; Chez Pierre Mortier, 1696.
  • Les imposteurs insignes ou histoires de plusieurs hommes de néant. de toutes nations, qui ont usurpé la qualité d'Empereurs, Roys & Princes: des guerres qu'ils ont causé, accompagnées de plusieurs curieuses circonstances ; Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1683 (work on false rulers or rulers who came to power through fraud).
  • Incidents of exceptional fraudsters ... ; Francken, Halle 1760. (translation by Carl Friedrich Pauli).

literature

  • Joseph Fr. Michaud, Louis Gabriel Michaud: Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, ou Histoire, par ordre alphabétique, de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes: . Michaud frères, 1824, p. 153 (French). limited preview in Google Book search
  • Société Archéologique de Beziers (ed.): Bulletin . tape 1 . Mme V. Bory, Beziers 1836, p. 352 (French). limited preview in Google Book search

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Thomas: Universal Pronouncing Dictionary Of Biography And Mythology Part Three . Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4191-7396-7 , p. 1908 . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Joseph Fr Michaud, Louis Gabriel Michaud: Biographie universelle, ancienne et Moderne, ou Histoire, par ordre alphabétique, de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes . Michaud frères, 1824, p. 352 . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Joh. Baptista von Rocoles: Incidents of exceptional deceivers: In two parts . With comments and a preface; Authors Jean-Baptiste de Rocoles, Carl Friedrich Pauli . Francken, Halle 1760 (on the author: royal French and electoral Brandenburg historian). ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Rocoles, Jean-Baptiste de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Beziers
DATE OF DEATH 1696
Place of death Toulouse