Guillaume Postel (1510-1581)

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Guillaume Postel

Visionnaire et philologue né au hameau de la Dolerie (commune de Barenton, dans la Manche) en 1510, mort à Paris en 1581. D'une famille très pauvre, il apprit seul le grec, l'hébreu et l'arabe, Marguerite de Valois décida François Ier à l'envoyer en Orient pour chercher des manuscrits, et à son retour on le nomma professeur au Collège de France (1539). Après un deuxième voyage en Orient, il mena une vie plus que jamais vagabonde et misérable, on le vit successivement en Italie, en France, en Suisse, en Autriche puis à Venise et à Rome où il connut les...lire la suite

Guillaume Postel

Visionary and philologist born in the hamlet of La Dolerie (commune of Barenton, in the Manche) in 1510, died in Paris in 1581. From a very poor family, he learned only Greek, Hebrew and Arabic, Marguerite de Valois decided to send him to the Orient to look for manuscripts, and on his return he was appointed professor at the Collège de France (1539). After a second trip to the East, he led a life more than ever wandering and miserable, he was seen successively in Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria then in Venice and Rome where he knew the prisons of the Inquisition. Finally returned to Paris around 1562, he was locked up in the monastery of Saint-Martin des Champs, but with a peaceful and honorable retreat, where he spent his last days.
Guillaume Postel was considered in the 16th century as a great orientalist, Vatable, Danès, Widmandstadt had consideration for him, brilliant teacher, he attracted a real crowd to his courses. But the greatest service he did to the oriental languages was to bring important manuscripts to Europe, for example works by Abufelda and Damascene, and a manuscript which served to publish in Vienna, in 1555, the Syriac New Testament. He offers a singular mix of science and madness, his fantasies about the future union of all humans are exposed in a language so obscure that we can not understand them. But he was, with Castellion, one of the first theologians who recommended tolerance.
Source : various Internet documents including Wikipedia