Jean-Jacques Boissard

Jean -Jacques Boissard (* um 1528 in Besançon, † October 30, 1602 in Metz) was a French antiquary and Latin poet.

Life

Jean -Jacques Boissard led an eventful life and was a great deal of time traveling. His first recorded theological studies in Germany and the Low Countries ( Leuven ), he gave up from dissatisfaction with his strict teacher and joined his uncle, the humanists and tutor Babet Hugues ( Hugo Babelus, 1474-1556 ). After crossing a large part of Germany he came to Italy, where he remained for several years and often got into financial distress. In Rome, he spent considerable time in the wake of Cardinal Antonio Carafa, developed a taste for antiquities and began to collect artifacts from the ancient city and its surroundings.

He then visited the islands of the Greek archipelago, with the intention to travel to Greece, but a serious illness forced him to return to Rome. Here he took his favorite pastime with great zeal again, completed his artifact collection and returned to France. Since he had some time previously joined the Huguenot church, but him the public confession of his religion was not permitted, he settled because of the hostility after 1560 in Metz. However, as a private tutor young nobleman he had further opportunity to travel far. Among other things, he successively the two sons of the Calvinist leader Seigneur de Clervant were entrusted to educate. In this period, a stay in the university city of Padua falls during the plague in the year 1576th Many people of his acquaintance died of the epidemic, which understandably touched him deeply. From 1583 he lived permanently in Metz, and married in 1587 Marie Aubry, the daughter of his former printer and publisher Jean Aubry. Later, however, his writings brought him increasingly into contact German publishers and especially in close collaboration with Theodor de Bry.

Artistic activity

Boissard had met on his travels, many scholars, collected their biographical facts and images or persons portrayed well by hand. With the engraver and publisher Theodor de Bry he gave in Frankfurt am Main 1597-1598 out 100 scholarly portraits, describing them as Icones virorum Illustrium doctrina et eruditione praestantium ad vivum effictae cum eorum vitis. The collection grew within half a century by the sons de Bry and their successors under the more familiar name Bibliotheca chalcographica to over 400 portraits zoom.

Works

Boissard used for his emblematic texts and graphics its archaeological and philological knowledge of antiquity.

  • Ovid's Metamorphoses, 1556
  • Poemata, 1574
  • Emblemata cum tetrastichis Latinis Metz: Jean Aubry, 1584
  • Emblematum liber 1588, Frankfurt am Main, 1593
  • Icones Virorum Illustrium, 1597
  • Bibliotheca chalcographica, hoc est Virtute et eruditione clarorum Virorum imagines. Heidelberg: Clemens Ammon, 1669 online access to the database Mateo
  • Vitae et Icones Sultanorum Turcicorum, etc. 1597
  • Theatrum Vitae Humanae Metz: Abraham Faber, 1596
  • Romanae Urbis et Topographiae Antiquitatum, 1597-1602 (online)
  • De Divinatione et magicis Praestigiis, 1605
  • Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium, 1581
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