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- Guillaume Budé was a French humanist, founder of Collegium Trilingue (later Collège de France), and royal librarian who helped shape early modern intellectual culture in France [Britannica: Budé].[5]
- He served as an ambassador to Rome and held several administrative posts; his work De Transitu Hellenismi ad Christianismum (1535) reflects his engagement with humanism amid Reformation-era controversies.[3][5]
- His life intersected with changes in French printing policy and library organization, including his role in the development of France’s royal library (ultimately the Bibliothèque nationale de France).[2][4]
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Guillaume Budé (French: [ɡijom byde]; Latinized as Guilielmus Budaeus; 1468 – 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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kids.kiddle.coDatabase of Classical Scholars - The School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
dbcs.rutgers.eduGuillaume Budé was a French scholar who brought about a revival of classical studies in France and helped to found the Collège de France, Paris. He was also a diplomat and royal librarian. Educated in Paris and Orléans, he became especially proficient in Greek, learning philosophy, law, theology,
www.britannica.comHe also induced Francis to refrain from prohibiting printing in France, which had been advised by the Sorbonne in 1533. He was sent by Louis XII. to Rome as ambassador to Leo X., and in 1522 was appointed *maître des requêtes* and was several times *prévôt des marchands*. He died in Paris on the 23rd of August 1540.
en.wikisource.orgBUDÉ, GUILLAUME (1468–1540) BUDÉ, GUILLAUME (1468–1540), French scholar. Budé was born into a prominent Paris bourgeois family with ties to the French crown and a large collection of books and manuscripts.
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