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BUDAEUS (BUDÉ), Guillaume
- Date of Birth: January 26, 1467
- Born City: Paris
- Born State/Country: France
- Parents: Jean & Catherine Le Picart B.
- Date of Death: August 25, 1540
- Death City: Paris
- Death State/Country: France
- Married: Roberte Le Lieur
- Education:
Studied jurisprudence, Orléans, 1483-6; 1491.
- Professional Experience:
First director of Royal Library, Fontainebleu (later moved to Paris), 1522; founded Collegium Trilingue, later Collège de France
- Publications:
Plutarch, (trans.) (1502-5); Annotationes in XXIV libros Pandectarum (Paris, 1508); Annotationes in quattuor et viginti pendectarum libros (Paris, Josse Bade, 1532); Annotationes in XXIV Pandectarum libros (in Latin) (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphius, 1541); Annotationes in XXIV Pandectarum libros (in Latin) (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphius, 1546); De contemptu rerum fortuitarum libri tres (Paris, 1520); Epistolae, 8 vols., (1520); Libri V de Asse et partibus ejus (in Latin) (Venice: Aldo Manuzio, et al., 1522); Summaire ou Epitome du livre de Asse (Paris, 1522); De studio litterarum recte et commode instituendo (Paris, 1527); Commentarii linquae graecae (Paris, 1529); Commentarii Linguae Græcae, Gulielmo Budaeo, consiliario Regio, supplicumque libellorum in Regia magistro, auctore. Ab eodem accuratè recogniti, atque amplius tertia parte aucti (Paris: Robert Stephanus, 1548); De philologia (Paris, 1530); Libellorumque magistri in praetorio, altera aeditio annotationum in pandectas(Paris, Josse Bade, 1532); De Studio literarum recte et commode instituendo. Item eiusdem G. Budaei De Philologia Lib. II (Basel: Walderum, 1533); De transitu Hellenismi ad Christianismum libri tres (Paris: Robert Estienne, 1534) ; De l'institution du prince (1547); Opera omnia, 4 vols. (Basel, 1557).
- Sources:
Nicéron 8:371-89; Loys Leroy (or Regius), Vita G. Budaei (1540); D. Rebitté, G. Budé, restaurateur des études grecques en France (1846) ; E. de Budé, Vie de G. Budé (1884) ; D'Hozier, La Maison de Budé; L. Delaruelle, Études sur l'humanisme français (1907); J. Plattard, Guillaume Budé et les origines de l'Humanisme en France (1923); GI 8:326.D. McNeil, Guillaume Budé and Humanism in the Reign of Francis I (1975)
Photo credit: Portrait by Jean Clouet, Cabinet des estampes, Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris.
