Jean Daurat

Jean Dorat (actually Dinemandi Jean, born April 3, 1508 Limoges, † November 1, 1588 in Paris) was a French writer and scholar.

Life

Although coming from a humble background, he could obviously provide a sufficient educational background to begin in 1537 to study at the Paris Faculty of Arts can. He impressed early on by his phenomenal memory and distinguished himself not only as from Latinist, but also as Hellenist.

In addition, he made something of a name as a writer of poems, which he later wrote first in French, especially in Latin and (old) Greek.

In 1544 he was hired by the humanist interested nobles Lazare de Baif as a tutor for his son Jean Antoine and his young secretary and relatives, the later poet Pierre de Ronsard significant. Both students praised the teaching Dorats and followed him to the Collège de Coqueret, as he was in 1547, after the death of L. de Baif, there appointed rector.

Dorat was undoubtedly as a discussion partner involved in the development of programmatic magazine La Défense et illustration de la langue francaise, 1549, another now famous pupil, Joachim du Bellay published. A little later he was one of the members of the informal La Pléiade poets Federal to Ronsard and Du Bellay.

1560 he was appointed professor appointed for (old) Greek at the Collège des exclusive lecteurs royaux ( = the royal college lecturers ), the later the Collège de France.

A collective edition of his scattered poems appeared only in 1586, ie shortly before his death, edited by students and friends under the title Poemata.

Bibliography

• Geneviève Demerson: Dorat en son temps, culture classique et présence au monde. Clermont- Ferrand, 1979.
• Geneviève Demerson: Les Odes latines. Clermont- Ferrand, Presses Universitaires, 1980.
• Christine de Buzon, Jean -Eudes Girot: Colloque Dorat de Limoges. Genève, Droz, 2002.

• Literature ( French)
• Literature ( New Latin )
• University teachers ( Collège de France)
• Frenchman
• Born in 1508
• Died in 1588
• Man