Tanneguy Le Fèvre
Tanneguy Le Fèvre , Latin Tanaquillus Faber , also Tanaquil Faber (* 1615 in Caen , Département Calvados ; † 12 September 1672 in Saumur , Département Maine-et-Loire ) was a French Huguenot humanist .
Life
Tanneguy Le Fèvre was raised by his uncle, a clergyman, and attended the Jesuit college in La Flèche . He later went to Paris and made further studies there. After graduation he was soon hired by Cardinal Richelieu , whose protection he had acquired, as inspector of the printing works in the Louvre .
After Richelieu's death (1642), Le Fèvre was embarrassed because his salary was not paid to him. So he gave up the unsatisfactory position at the Louvre and went to Langres with a friend . Here he made himself acquainted with the doctrine of the Reformed and converted to their church in Preuilly in Touraine in 1644 . In 1649 he settled in Saumur and in 1651 accepted a theological professorship at the Protestant academy there. He held this position successfully for two decades. Later, however, his state of health deteriorated and he got into such a conflict with the consistory that was in charge of him, among other things because of the mild judgment of the ancient Greek poet Sappho , that he finally resigned. Several universities tried for his services and he had already accepted a position offered by the Elector of the Palatinate at the University of Heidelberg when he suddenly died on September 12, 1672.
His daughter Anne Dacier was of almost the same learning.
Fonts
Le Fèvre's most important writings, some of which have been reprinted several times, are:
- Epistolae criticae , 2 vols., Saumur: 1659-65
- Les vies des poètes grecs , Saumur, 1665
- Méthode pour commencer les humanités grecques et latines . Saumur: René Péan, 1672; second edition Paris 1731
Translations
- Herr le Fevre's teaching style in teaching a beginner in the fine sciences: especially as far as the Greek and Latin languages are concerned; Translated from the French . Cell, printed and published by Joh. Georg Paßin, 1740. Microfiche edition ('Méthode pour commencer les humanités grecques et latines, German edition).
Editions by ancient authors
Le Fèvre also organized editions of the following ancient authors:
- Lucian of Samosata : the satire Timon
- Phaedrus
- Anacreon and Sappho : Τὰ τοῦ Ἀνακρέοντος και Σαπφοῦς μέλη. Notas & animadversiones addidit Tanaquillus Faber; in quibus multa veterum emendantur. Saumur: René Péan, 1680.
- Dionysius of Alexandria
- Apollodorus of Athens
- Lucretius (its conjectures are still valued by modern editors)
- Pseudo-Longinos : the literary theoretical work De sublimi libellus
- Claudius Aelianus : Variae historiae
- Terence
- Horace
- Florus
- Virgil and
- Agathemerus Geographus (not complete)
literature
- W. Cramer: Lefèbre (Taneguy) , in: Johann Samuelansch , Johann Gottfried Gruber (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 2nd section, 42nd part (1888), p. 359
- Tanneguy Le Fèvre . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 618.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tanneguy Le Fèvre in the catalog of the SWB, Southwest German Library Network
- Literature by Tanneguy Le Fèvre in the catalog of the Berlin State Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Le Fèvre, Tanneguy |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tanaquillus Faber; Lefebvre, Tanneguy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French humanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1615 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Caen |
DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1672 |
Place of death | Saumur |