Samuel Chappuzeau

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Title page of the drama Lyon dans son luster

Samuel Chappuzeau (born June 16, 1625 in Paris , † August 31, 1701 in Celle ) was a Reformed traveler, doctor, writer and teacher from France.

Chappuzeau's correspondence with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz became part of the world document heritage .

Live and act

He came from a noble family from the Poitou and studied in Châtillon-sur-Loing (today Châtillon-Coligny , Loiret department ). After the husbands of his sisters cheated of his parental inheritance, he left France. As an economic refugee, he boarded a ship in Le Havre and traveled to the Netherlands in 1648. In The Hague he lived with friends, among them leading scientists at the time such as Johann Amos Comenius , Claudius Salmasius and Constantijn Huygens .

From 1649 to 1651 he spent two years at the court of Landgravine Amalie Elisabeth , where he worked as court preacher. When she died in 1651, Chappuzeau had to leave the farm in search of a new livelihood. He decided to hire himself out as a writer after he had published his first book in 1650.

In 1656 he returned to Amsterdam, where his second son Christophe Chappuzeau was born. In autumn 1659 he became tutor of the future King Wilhelm III. from England , but with the death of William's mother this employment ended in 1661 and Chappuzeau had to move on again.

After the death of his first wife in 1662, Chappuzeau remarried in the same year and lived in Geneva , the birthplace of his wife , until 1672 . In 1666 he acquired Geneva citizenship, which was a rarity and honor for Protestants at the time. Extensive trips followed, on which he collected information for his writing activities. First and foremost, these were reports on the courts of the time, which Chappuzeau reported flatteringly. Because of one of these writings he lost his Geneva citizenship in 1671 and had to go into exile. T. spent in Lyon and Basel

In 1679 he was finally allowed to return to Geneva, but three years later, in 1682, he moved to Celle, where he spent the last 20 years of his life as the court page master of Duke Georg Wilhelm . During this time he worked on an unfinished dictionary and kept in touch with scholars such as Pierre Bayle and Gottfried Leibniz . He also wrote numerous travelogues of his stays in England, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. His work Le théâtre français (1674) is considered the most important cultural history of French theater in the 17th century.

Christoph (e) Chappuzeau (1656–1734)

family

Chappuzeau was a son-in-law of the librarian and archivist of the city of Lüneburg, Johann Heinrich Büttner .

One of Chappuzeau's sons was Christoph (e) Chappuzeau (1656–1734), from 1776 chamber secretary to Duke Georg Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg in Celle. His correspondence with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz has been preserved.

Among the descendants of Chappuzeau in Germany were numerous pastors, such as Christoph Heinrich Chappuzeau and Adolf von Chappuzeau .

Works

  • Lyon dans son luster (geographical, 1656)
  • Le cercle des femmes (comedy, 1656)
  • Genève délivrée (drama, 1662)
  • L'Europe vivante (1669)
  • L'Allemagne protestante: ou relation nouv. d'un voyage aux cours des Electeurs et des Prince Protestants de l'Empire en 1669 , Geneva 1671

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Chappuzeau, Samuel (August 31, 1701) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition on the website of the University of Göttingen
  2. ↑ Andreas Flick: “The Celler Hof is completely lost”; HK Eggers, The old French family Chappuzeau
personal data
SURNAME Chappuzeau, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French traveler and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1701
Place of death Celle