Nicolas Bourbon the Younger
Nicolas Bourbon the Younger (* 1574 in Vendeuvre-sur-Barse or Bar-sur-Aube ; † August 6, 1644 in Paris ) was a French oratorian , Graecist , neo-Latin writer, man of letters and member of the Académie française .
life and work
Nicolas Bourbon the Younger was the great-nephew of Nicolas Bourbon the Elder (1503–1550), author of the Nugae , portrayed by Hans Holbein the Younger . Bourbon was a student of Jean Passerat . He taught successively at the Collège des Grassins , the Collège de Calvy and the Collège d'Harcourt. Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was one of his students . At the instigation of Cardinal Jacques-Davy Duperron , he was professor of Greek at the Collège royal from 1611 to 1620 (predecessor: George Critton, 1555–1611, here from 1595; successor: Pierre Valens, 1570–1641). In 1620 he resigned and entered the oratorio . 1623-1628 he was a canon in Langres . He went back to Paris and received a pension from Richelieu in 1634. He received another pension from Bishop Augustin Potier von Beauvais , who had been his pupil. In 1637 he was elected to the Académie française (seat no. 29). He died at the age of 69.
Works (selection)
- Nicolaï Borbonii Poëmatia exposita. Appendix . 1633
- Opera omnia , poemata, orationes, epistolae, versiones e Graeco, quibus accessit ejusdem tumulus a clarissimis viris extructus 1651, 1654
literature
- Nicolai Borbonii, in academiae Parisiensi eloquentiae Graecae professoris regii, Tumulus ad perpetuam viri doctissimi ... memoriam , ex suae erga eum superstitis observantiae monimentum ab amicis extructus. 1649. (memorial)
- Louis Moréri : Le Grand Dictionnaire historique. Supplement . Vol. 1. 1735, p. 176.
- François Bruys (1708–1788): Mémoires historiques, critiques et littéraires . Vol. 1. Paris 1751, pp. VIII-XV.
- Jean Jehasse: Guez de Balzac et le génie romain . Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne 1977, p. 85 and passim
- Amin Maalouf : Un fauteuil sur la Seine . Grasset, Paris 2016, pp. 27–34.
Web links
- Information on Nicolas Bourbon the Younger in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Nicolas Bourbon the Younger in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://books.google.fr/books?id=kiwXM0YOG-AC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false , p. 5, note 1
- ↑ Nicolas Bourdon: Nugae (1533). Edition traduite et commentée, Genève, Droz, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bourbon, Nicolas the Younger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French oratorian, Greek artist, neo-Latin writer, man of letters and member of the Académie française |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1574 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vendeuvre-sur-Barse or Bar-sur-Aube |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1644 |
| Place of death | Paris |