Étienne Baluze

Étienne Baluze (* November 24, 1630 in Tulle, Limousin, † July 28, 1718 in Paris) was a French historian. On his areas ( church history, patristics, medieval law) he was one of the most eminent scholars of his time.

Baluze studied law and history at Toulouse, where he became in 1656 secretary of the Archbishop Petrus de Marca. 1667, he was in Paris librarian Jean -Baptiste Colbert, in 1670 professor of canon law at the Collège Royal in 1707 and director of this institution. Because he had in his Histoire générale de la maison d' Auvergne ( 1708) defends the right of the Cardinal de Bouillon on this land, and thereby supposedly based on forged documents, he was released in 1710 by Louis XIV in 1711 and directed from Paris. After the king's death in 1715 he was able to return, but has not turned back, where he died three years later.

The 60 books authored or edited Baluze, are to be mentioned as major works: capitularia regum Francorum ( 1677); Conciliorum nova collectio (1683 ); Historia Paparum Avenionensium ( 1693); Miscellaneorum libri VII, p collectio veterum monumentorum, quae hactenus latuerunt ( 1678-1715 ).