Claude Dupuy
Claude Dupuy (* 1545 in Paris, † December 1, 1594 ) was a French humanist of the 16th century. He was a student of the humanists Denis Lambin, Adrianus Turnebus and Jean Daurat and the lawyer Jacques Cujas. Claude had three sons: Christophe, Pierre and Jacques.
Claude Dupuy was a Parisian lawyer and a leading figure among the French humanists and lawyers who gathered around Cujas Jacques and Jacques -Auguste de Thou. In 1576 he was Counsellor of Parliament.
Dupuy, who wrote under the pseudonym puteanus, but was never able to publish his work. He collected a large number of documents. Denis Duval, who cataloged his library in 1595, led to about 300 letters and 2,000 books. These he bequeathed to his two sons Pierre and Jacques. After her death, she finally fell to the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Codes from his collection have been conducted under the name of Codex puteanus. Among his manuscripts, the letters of Paul of Tarsus were in Greek and Latin (BN grec. 107 & A), a collection of Tironischen notes ( BN lat 8777 ), a copy of Publius Statius Papinius from the 9th century BC n. , the Apologeticum by Tertullian (BN lat 1623), a codex of Livy from the 5th century AD and the so-called Excerpta Latina Barbari. He had received from the Abbey of Corbie These and other writings.
His correspondence with Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601), an Italian humanist from Padua, is still preserved.