Gabriel Naudé

Gabriel Naudé ( born February 2, 1600 Paris, † July 10, 1653 in Abbeville ) was a French scholar and librarian.

Life

After studying literature, philosophy and medicine, he was primarily active as a librarian. In this capacity, he was successively in the service of Cardinals Giovanni Francesco Bagni (1578-1641) and Francesco Barberini (1597-1679) in Rome, before, in the course of which he tirelessly toured Europe in ten years, the first library for the Paris city ​​Palace of Cardinal Jules Mazarin and Minister (1602-1662) built. In order Mazarin he earned several thousands of rare and precious books and manuscripts.

The librarian was driven by his signature in 1627 wrote: Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque ( " Note on the Structure of a library " ) famous, the first French manual of librarianship. In his works he dealt among other things with the esoteric and the magic he, black magic ( damaged end ), divine magic and natural magic was divided into white magic ( healing, protective ), where he latter subordinated astronomy, chemistry and other sciences. Another focus of his research were the Rosicrucians.

Gabriel Naudé died in 1653 at the age of 53 years in Abbeville.

Mazarin's first library was when he had to pull out due by the Fronde into exile, mostly dissolved. The books were obtained, together with the second built by Cardinal collection the original fundus of the Bibliothèque Mazarine in the Collège des Quatre Nations.

Selections

See also: factory specifications Gabriel Naudé