Pierre Dubois

Pierre Dubois (* 1255, † by 1321 ) was a French scholastic, writer and public prosecutor. He developed a concept of a " lasting peace " in Europe and was one of the first advocates of the idea of ​​Europe.

Life

Pierre Dubois was born 1255-1260. He studied in the period 1269-1272 scholasticism and law and jurisprudence in Paris. At that time taught at the university there also Siger of Brabant and Thomas Aquinas. Dubois worked as a deputy, bailiff, lawyer and writer; most of his writings appeared anonymously.

Profession

Pierre Dubois was 1302 in the first French National Assembly as a deputy of the district Coutances (Normandy) operates. To 1306 he worked as a public prosecutor for Philip IV " the Fair " (le Bel ), as well as for the English King Edward I and devised a plan according to which the whole of Europe close to a state and should be separated by no more so that the possibility of a lasting peace in Europe would be given.

Already in 1300 he called for a thorough reform of the State, the Church and the separation of church and state, as well as a renewal of the army and the judiciary. Its so named by him main work On the recovery of the Holy Land, consisting of 142 paragraphs, he wrote about in 1306 in view of a possible forthcoming crusade; he called for the creation of political unity among the European Christian princes, so .. " peace would be secured by the fact that they speak unite in a single state, but would have to be so firmly united that it could be separated by anything." He proposed a council of secular and ecclesiastical princes of Europe, on which should also be decided that the one who disturbs the peace, would be severely punished. Furthermore, an arbitration with clear accusation and defense requirements and strict court Regulation should be created as a mandatory permanent facilities for the whole of Europe. The members of this close-knit community should therefore renounce to some extent on their sovereign rights, but remain basically independent political entities.

The economic coexistence and related trade regulations have been incorporated by him in his European ideas. He also formulated, inter alia, Considerations for education and vocational training. He was the first advocate of a far-reaching idea of ​​Europe and has published the first proposal for a European confederation. However, Dubois ideas could not concretely influence the policy of the French king.

For a time, to have been also working for the English King Edward I. Dubois. Pierre Dubois is mentioned in documents only three times: in 1314 he was employed as a civil servant in the Countess of Artois. In 1319 he was mentioned as a deputy in the Parliament of Paris, and in 1321 he practiced the activities of a bailiff ( Bailli ) in Arras from. After that trace of him; an exact date of death is not known. It may be, however, died 1321-1323.

Works

• De recuperatione terrae sanctae ( "On the reconquest of the Holy Land ", 1306)