André Dacier

André Dacier (* April 6, 1651 in Castres (Tarn ), † September 18, 1722 in Paris) was a French philologist and royal court librarian.

Life

The son of a Protestant lawyer first studied at the Academy of Puylaurens, then with the eminent Huguenot humanist Tanneguy Le Fèvre in Saumur. After his death in 1672, he and the daughter of his former teacher, Anne Le Fèvre to Paris, where she participated in the edition ad usum Delphini ( for use of the Dauphin ) of Charles de Sainte -Maure, Duke of Montausier, where the works of ancient classical writers appeared in annotated French translations. In 1682 he eventually married Anne Le Fèvre. In 1685 he converted to Catholicism and in 1695 a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Française ( fauteuil 28), which in 1713 appointed him to its permanent secretary. In 1708 he was royal librarian of the Louvre and died on 18 September 1722. His French translations among others of the works of Horace, Aristotle, Plato, Epictetus and Plutarch posterity shall apply as though linguistically correct and exact reproductions, but not necessarily as perfectly particularly the tone and spirit apt transfers.