Theophraste Renaudot

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Theophraste Renaudot

Theophraste Renaudot (* 1586 in Loudun , today in the Vienne department , † October 25, 1653 in Paris ) was a French doctor and philanthropist . He is considered the founder of modern journalism .

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In 1606, at the age of nineteen, he became Doctor Medicinae at the University of Montpellier . Soon after, he met Cardinal Richelieu and converted from Protestantism to Catholicism . He later became the personal physician of King Ludwig XIII.

Theophraste Renaudot in front of the house where he was born

In 1630/31 he founded an advertising agency, Bureau d'Adresse et de rencontre in Paris as an employment agency, information agency, sales agency, venue for scholarly lectures, publication of the Gazette (de France), polyclinic, pawn shop and art gallery.

The house was on the Île de la Cité in the Rue de La Calandre . It had a large hall in which employers reported vacancies. Here, however, the newcomers, teachers, servants and journeymen could also enter information about their skills and their address. Cardinal Richelieu supported the institution.

From 1631 Renaudot was the editor of the first French newspaper La Gazette . This newspaper appeared weekly from Friday May 30, 1631, was given the title Gazette de France in 1762 and was available until 1915. Since 1633, Renaudot organized weekly conferences with lectures on various subjects - a forerunner of the adult education center - and published them in the comptes-rendus , of which about 240 were also published in English ( Proceedings ). In 1637 he opened the mont-de-piété , the first pawnshop in Paris. He was appointed superintendent of the poor by Richelieu and in 1640 introduced free medical checkups for the poor. In 1642 he published a manual for self-diagnosis. In 1646 he became the new king's historian . The well-known journalist Eusèbe Renaudot was his grandson.

Since 1926, the Prix ​​Renaudot has been awarded in France in his honor , which, along with the Prix ​​Goncourt, is one of the five great literary prizes in the country.

literature

  • Kathleen Anne Wellman: Making Science Social: The Conferences of Theophraste Renaudot, 1633–1642 (Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory. Series for Science and Culture, Volume 6)
  • Lula M. Richardson: The "Conferences" of Theophraste Renaudot: An Episode in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns . In: Modern Language Notes. Volume 48, No. 5 (May 1933), pp. 312-316
  • Jean-Daniel Krebs: German baroque novella between moral theory and information: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer and Theophraste Renaudot. In: Modern Language Notes. Volume 103, No. 3, German Issue (April 1988), pp. 478-503

Web links

Commons : Théophraste Renaudot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ^ Anton Tantner's address office via the Bureau d'Adresse
  2. ↑ Heiko Ostendorf in the Netzeitung: Store address and find work ( memento of April 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Ernst Probst: Superwomen 14 - Media and Astrology, p. 78 . ISBN 3638934071 , accessed on May 29, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Renaudot, Théophraste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor, philanthropist, is considered the founder of modern journalism
DATE OF BIRTH 1586
PLACE OF BIRTH Loudun
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1653
Place of death Paris