Jean Bouhier

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Jean Bouhier (born March 16, 1673 in Dijon , † March 17, 1746 ibid) was a French lawyer, scholar, bibliophile, author, translator and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Jean Bouhier was the brother of Claude Bouhier (1681–1755), Archbishop of Dijon, and nephew of Jean Bouhier (1666–1744), also Archbishop of Dijon. He attended the Jesuit college in Dijon and studied law in Paris and Orléans . He completed his studies in 1693 and, like his father, became a councilor at the Parlement of Dijon. From 1702 to 1727 he was president there, which is why his time as President Bouhier knew him. He resigned from his position and devoted the rest of his life to science. He died at the age of 73 from the gout that had plagued him for decades.

Bouhier expanded the precious library he had taken over from his father to 35,000 volumes and 2,000 manuscripts. It was acquired in 1781 by Abbot Louis-Marie Rocourt for the Clairvaux Abbey and was lost to the city of Troyes during the turmoil of the French Revolution , where it is now part of the Médiathèque Jacques Chirac.

Bouhier's research on antiquity (initially in collaboration with Bernard de Montfaucon , Bernard de La Monnoye and others), then his translations from Latin, mostly in collaboration with his friend Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet , brought him seat no.33 in 1727 at the Académie française. He conducted extensive correspondence with scholars at home and abroad, which was published in 14 volumes. His main works are the collection, edition and commentary on the records of customary law ( coutumes ) in the Duchy of Burgundy . In Dijon he gathered a circle of like-minded people, including the young Charles de Brosses and his friend Buffon , and from which the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon was constituted.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Bernard de Montfaucon: Lettres pour et contre , sur la fameuse question, si les solitaires, appelés Thérapeutes, dont a parlé Philon le Juif, étaient chrétiens. Edited by Bernard de La Monnoye. Paris 1712.
  • Oeuvres complètes de Cicéron . Ed. Désiré Nisard . Vol. 4. Tusculanes . Books 3 and 5. Paris 1864. (first Paris 1737)
  • (Ed.) Les Coutumes du Duché de Bourgogne . 2 volumes, Dijon 1742–1746.
  • (Translator) Les Amours d'Énée et de Didon , poëme traduit de Virgile, avec diverse autres imitations d'anciens poëtes grecs et latins. Paris 1742.
  • Research et dissertations on Hérodote . Dijon 1746.
  • Remarques sur Cicéron . Nouvelle édition. Paris 1746.
  • Correspondance littéraire du président Bouhier . 14 volumes. Saint-Etienne 1974–1988.

literature

  • Jean Le Rond d'Alembert : Eloge de Jean Bouhier . In: Same, œuvres . Vol. 3. Paris 1821, pp. 321-329.
  • Charles Des Guerrois: Le président Bouhier, sa vie, ses ouvrages et sa bibliothèque . Ledoyen, Paris 1855 ( digitized version , with bibliography of the printed works).
  • Albert Ronsin: La bibliothèque Bouhier . Histoire d'une collection formée du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle par une famille de magistrats bourguignons. Dijon 1971.
  • Kouroch Bellis: System de l'obligation naturelle . Dissertation Paris 2018, pp. 62–70 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Bouhier, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouhier de Savigny, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer, scholar and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1746
Place of death Dijon