Jean de Drosay

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Jean de Drosay (also Joannes Drosaeus , * in the 15th century in Sainte-Marie-en-Auge, Pays d'Auge ; † around 1550 ) was a French jurist, philologist, Hebraist, Graecist, Latinist and Romanist .

life and work

Drosay taught law at the Collège des droits of the University of Caen . He is considered a reformer of law.

In linguistics, Drosay is known for a partial description of Hebrew, Greek, Latin and French that appeared in 1544 and was reissued in 2013.

Works

  • Alphabetum hebraicum decerptum è quadrilingui gra [m] matica , cuius autor est Ioannes Drosaeus in utrôque iure doctor illust., Paris 1543
  • Grammaticae quadrilinguis partitiones , in grátiam puerôrum. Autôre Ioánne Drosaeo in utrôq [ue] jûre doctôre illustrissimo, Paris 1544, 1554
  • Eléments de la grammaire quadrilingue, 1544-1554 , ed. by Alberte Jacquetin-Gaudet, Paris 2013
  • Juris universi justinianea methodus olim à Cicerone praescripta , auctore DJ Drosaeo, Paris 1545, 1564

literature

  • Alphonse Rivier , Jean de Drosay, l'un des réformateurs de la science du droit au XVIe siècle , Brussels 1875
  • Pierre Carel, Etude historique sur le barreau de Caen , Caen 1889
  • Pierre Gouhier, La société intellectuelle à Caen aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, in: Cahier des Annales de Normandie 9, 1977, pp. 179-194
  • Franz Josef Hausmann , Louis Meigret. Humaniste et linguiste , Tübingen 1980 (pp. 139–141)
  • Pierre Swiggers: Linguistique et grammaticographie romanes, in: Lexikon der Romanistische Linguistik I, 1, Tübingen 2001, p. 36–121 (here p. 60)

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personal data
SURNAME Drosay, Jean de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drosaeus, Joannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer, philologist, Hebraist, Graecist, Latinist and Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Sainte-Marie-en-Auge, Pays d'Auge
DATE OF DEATH around 1550