Joseph Prunis
Joseph Marie Prunis , called Abbé Prunis , (born May 16, 1742 in Campagnac-lès-Quercy , Dordogne department ; † 1816 in Saint-Cyprien , Dordogne department) was a French clergyman and politician.
Life
Joseph Prunis was born to the surgeon Antoine Prunis and Catherine Jourreau. He became Canons Regular of the abbey Chancelade in Perigord and from 1804 to 1809, he represented Dordogne in the National Assembly .
Rediscovered Michel de Montaigne's travel diary
Prunis became famous as the rediscoverer of the travel diary of Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), which he found in 1770 (or 1769) at Montaigne Castle. The manuscript was initially entrusted to him by Count Ségur de la Roquette , the owner of the castle, but was later reclaimed. In 1774 the work was published by Meunier de Querlon under the title Diary of Michel de Montaigne's journey through Italy , Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581 . Prunis then complained bitterly that Querlon had robbed him of the fruits of his discovery and decipherment:
“I'm bringing the tape home, I decipher it, I copy it, I annotate it; d'Alembert , to whom I inform me of my find, congratulates me, I announce the issue in the newspapers, the public awaits it impatiently, I travel to Paris to get it going - and in the meantime the volume is out ... That is the reward for four years of work, effort and excitement ... ”(Letter to the Journal des Beaux-Arts et des Sciences , 1774, Volume 5, quoted from Otto Flake's introduction to his translation of the travel diary).
literature
- Otto Flake: Introduction . In: Michel de Montaigne: Diary of a bathing trip . ubs. Otto Flake, through. and edit Irma Bühler, Steingrüben, Stuttgart 1963, pp. 7-21.
- [Nicolas Toussaint Le Moyne] Desessarts: Les Siècles littéraires de la France. Ou Nouveau dictionnaire historique, critique, et bibliographique, de tous les écrivains français, morts et vivans, jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle . Auteur, Paris 1800–1801, 6 volumes
- Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton and Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français. Comprenant tous les membres des assemblées françaises et tous les ministres français depuis le ler mai 1789 jusqu'au ler mai 1889, avec leurs noms, état civil, états de services, actes politiques, votes parlementaires, etc. Bourloton, Paris 1889–1891, 5 volumes
- Jean François Eugène Robinet, Adolphe Robert and Julien Le Chaplain: Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la révolution et de l'empire. 1789-1815 . Libr. Historique de la révolution et de l'empire, Paris [1898], 2 volumes
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prunis, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prunis, Abbé; Prunis, Joseph Marie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French clergyman and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1742 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Campagnac-lès-Quercy , Dordogne department |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1816 |
| Place of death | Saint-Cyprien , Dordogne department |