Pierre Pithou
Pithou Pierre ( born November 1, 1539 Troyes, † November 1, 1596 in Nogent -sur- Seine), Peter also Pithoeus, was a French lawyer and scholar.
Life
In 1560 he was admitted to the bar at the Barreau in Paris. At the start of the second religious war 1567 Pithou who was Calvinist drew, after Sedan, and later to Basel back, and returned only after the publication of the peace edict returned to France. A short time later he accompanied the Duke François de Montmorency on his mission to England. Mid- 1572 he was back in France, just before the St. Bartholomew's Day (24 August 1572), which he barely survived. The following year, he followed the example of the later King Henry IV and swore off the Protestant faith.
Shortly after his accession to the throne took Henry IV Pithou into his service and gave him various legal orders. The most important work of his life was collaborating in the creation of satire Ménippée ( 1593), which so much harm to the cause of the Catholic League - the speech by the Sieur d' Aubray is usually attributed to Pithou.
His valuable library - Pithou already felt drawn to literature at an early age - was transferred for the most part in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
Pithou wrote many legal and historical books, prepared beyond spending several ancient authors. His first publication was Adversariorum subsectorum lib. II ( 1565), his most important contribution to the science of history, however, was the issue of the additional gear Visigothorum (1579 ); it was 1588, the capitula of Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald out, and assisted his brother François in the publication of the Corpus Juris Canonici ( 1687 ). His Libertés de l' église gallicane (1594 ) was printed in his Opera sacra juridica his Orica miscellanea collecta (1609 ) once more.
In classical literature, he was in 1596 the first who introduced the world to the fables of Phaedrus; He also issued the Pervigilium Veneris ( 1587 ) as well as Juvenal and Persius (1585 ). The Satyricon of Petronius both editions of 1577 and 1587 set standards.
Three brothers Pithous earned recognition as lawyers: Jean, Nicolas and François Pithou.