Jacques Bongars (1554-1612)

The essays contained in this volume present a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary enquiry into the life and works of the learned ambassador Jacques Bongars (1554-1612), a Huguenot who served under the Catholic King Henry IV. Hereby, Bongars receives as much attention for his scholarly work, with his language studies and philological writings, as he does for his role as an ambassador entrusted with undertaking diplomatic missions to the Protestant princes of Germany. It is shown that Bongars' rich legacy is just as fruitful for research into the history of diplomacy and confessionalism in the early modern period as it is for humanistic philology and the close ties between scholars and politics of the time.Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich: Vorwort - Philip Benedict: French Protestants in the Service of the Crown, 1554-1612 - Heinz Schilling: Protestantische Netzwerke und politische Außenbeziehungen im Europa des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts - Ruth Kohlndorfer-Fries: Unternehmertum - Politik - Gelehrsamkeit. Der niederländische Unternehmer Daniel van der Meulen und Jacques Bongars - Andreas Ammann: Die Justinausgabe von Jacques Bongars. Editionsphilologie und Gelehrtennetzwerk im Späthumanismus - Walther Ludwig: Die abgebrochene Orientreise von Jacques Bongars im Licht neuer Forschungen - Joanna Weinberg: Jacques Bongars in der Akademie des Rabbi Loew, des Maharal von Prag - Alexa Renggli: Spuren von Jacques Bongars in zwei reformationshistorischen Briefsammlungen in Zürich. Kommunikationsnetze und ihre Überlieferung - Charles-Eloi Vial: Les manuscrits de Jacques Bongars à la Bibliothèque nationale de France