Jean-Jacques Boissard

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Jean Jacques Boissard

Jean-Jacques Boissard (* around 1528 in Besançon ; † October 30, 1602 in Metz ) was a French antique collector and Latin poet.

Life

Jean-Jacques Boissard led an eventful life and spent a large part of his time traveling. He gave up his theological studies in Germany and the then Netherlands ( Leuven ) because of dissatisfaction with his strict teacher and joined his uncle, the humanist and private teacher Hugues Babet ( Hugo Babelus , 1474–1556). After crossing a large part of Germany he came to Italy, where he stayed for several years and was often in economic distress. In Rome he spent considerable time in the entourage of Cardinal Antonio Carafa , developed a taste for antiquity and began collecting artifacts from the ancient city and its surroundings.

He then visited the islands of the Greek archipelago with the intention of visiting Greece, but a serious illness forced him to return to Rome. Here he resumed his favorite pastime with great enthusiasm, completed his collection of artifacts and returned to France. Since he had joined the Huguenot Church some time before , but was not allowed to publicly profess his religion, he settled in Metz after 1560 because of the hostility. As a private tutor to young noblemen, however, he still had the opportunity to travel far. Among other things, the two sons of the Calvinist leader Seigneur de Clervant were entrusted to him one after the other for upbringing. During this period he also stayed in the university city of Padua at the time of the plague in 1576. Many people from his circle of friends died of the epidemic, which understandably touched him deeply. From 1583 he stayed in Metz permanently and in 1587 married Marie Aubry, the daughter of his previous printer and publisher Jean Aubry . Later, however, his publications brought him more and more into contact with German publishers and especially in close collaboration with Theodor de Bry .

Artistic activity

Boissard had met many scholars on his travels, collected their biographical facts and pictures or even portrayed the people personally. With the engraver and publisher Theodor de Bry he published 100 scholarly portraits in Frankfurt am Main from 1597–1598 and referred to them as Icones virorum illustrium doctrina et eruditione praestantium ad vivum effictae cum eorum vitis . The collection grew to over 400 portraits within half a century thanks to the de Brys sons and their successors under the better-known name Bibliotheca chalcographica .

Works

Copernicus portrait in Icones Virorum Illustrium

Boissard used his archaeological and philological knowledge of antiquity for his emblematic texts and graphics.

  • Ovid's Metamorphoses. 1556.
  • Poemata. 1574.
  • Emblemata cum tetrastichis latinis Metz. Jean Aubry, 1584.
  • Emblematum liber. 1588, Frankfurt am Main, 1593.
  • Icones Virorum Illustrium. 1597.
  • with Theodor de Bry: Bibliotheca chalcographica, hoc est Virtute et eruditione clarorum Virorum Imagines. Clemens Ammon, Heidelberg 1669 ( uni-mannheim.de ).
  • Vitae et Icones Sultanorum Turcicorum, etc.1597.
  • Theatrum Vitae Humanae Metz. Abraham Faber, 1596.
  • Romanae Urbis Topographiae et Antiquitatum. 1597–1602 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • De Divinatione et Magicis Praestigiis. 1605.
  • Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium. 1581.

literature

  • Boissard, Jean Jacques . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 4 : Bishārīn - Calgary . London 1910, p. 154 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Jean Jacques Boissard: Emblemata cum tetrastichis latinis. Wolfgang Harms (ed.). Metz: Jean Aubry 1587, reprint: Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-487-13896-1 ; in the series: Emblematic Cabinet.
  • Michael Thimann (Ed.): Jean Jacques Boissard: Ovids Metamorphosen 1556. The illustrated manuscript from the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (= iconographic repertories for the reception of ancient myths in Europe. Supplement V). Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7861-2509-0 ( book review with creative background ), accessed on May 4, 2010.
  • Michael Thimann: Remembrance of the foreign. Jean-Jacques Boissard's costume book for Johann Jacob Fugger. In: Marburg Yearbook for Art History. Volume 32, 2005, pp. 117-148.
  • Alison Adams: Jean Jacques Boissard's Emblemes, nouvellement mis de latin en françois par Pierre Joly. Abraham Faber, Metz 1595 (Factory Review French Emblems at Glasgow English) Retrieved May 6, 2010.

Web links

Commons : Jean-Jacques Boissard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alison Adams: Jean Jacques Boissard's Emblemes, nouvellement mis de latin en françois par Pierre Joly.
  2. ↑ a b Boissard, Jean Jacques . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 4 : Bishārīn - Calgary . London 1910, p. 154 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  3. ^ Georg Olms Verlag to Lit Emblemata cum tetrastichis latinis.
personal data
SURNAME Boissard, Jean-Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French antique collector and Latin poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 1528
PLACE OF BIRTH Besançon
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1602
Place of death Metz