Guillaume Budé
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French scholar, humanist and administrator (1467-1540)
Key facts
- Born
- January 26, 1467, Paris , Kingdom of France
- Died
- August 20, 1540 (1540-08-20) (aged 73), Paris, Kingdom of France
- Other name
- William Budaeus
- Alma mater
- University of Orléans
- Academic advisors
- Janus Lascaris , George Hermonymus
- Era
- Renaissance philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Renaissance humanism
- Institutions
- Collegium Trilingue
- Notable students
- Melchior Wolmar , John Colet
- Main interests
- Law
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Guillaume
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- classical scholar
- Position held
- ambassador
- Employer
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- Middle French
- Native language
- Middle French
- Doctoral advisor
- Janus Lascaris
- Student of
- George Hermonymus
- Doctoral student
- Melchior Volmar
- Field of work
- philology
- Image
- Guillaume Budé by Jean Clouet.jpg
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- Commons category
- Guillaume Budé
- date of birth
- 1467-01-26
- date of death
- 1540-08-22
- Commons Creator page
- Guillaume Budé
- name in native language
- Guillaume Budé
- student
- Melchior Volmar
- writing language
- renaissance Latin
- significant person
- Pietro Bembo
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- Serralunga di Crea
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Encyclopedic overview
Guillaume Budé ( French: [ɡijom byde]; Latinized as Guilielmus Budaeus; January 26, 1467 – August 20, 1540) was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de France.
Budé was also the first keeper of the royal library at the Palace of Fontainebleau, which was later moved to Paris, where it became the Bibliothèque nationale de France. He was an ambassador to Rome and held several important judicial and civil administrative posts.
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