Charles Estienne

Charles Estienne , (1504 - 1564), doctor, printer and writer French.

Biography

Origin

It belongs to the big family of the Imprimeur S of the same name (third wire of Henri Estienne), and was the son-in-law of Simon de Colines. It was high in the knowledge of the humanities and the old languages. He worked a little in the workshop then studied medicine with Paris near Jacobus Sylvius at the same time as Vésale.

Doctor

He engaged then in the publication of an anatomy illustrated with his friend Estienne of the River, surgeon and engraver, and this one began the engraving of wood as of 1530.

Before becoming itself printer, it had been devoted to the old languages then with medicine. Lazare Baïf entrusted the education of his/her son to him and, for this reason, took it along in its embassies of Germany and Italy, so that it could continue his care with his pupil. To Venice, Estienne bound friendship with Paul Manuce, which speaks about him, in some of its letters, in very honourable terms.

It becomes in 1542, Doctor Régent of the Medical college of Paris. He exerts medicine until in 1550. Him several important anatomical discoveries are owed: in Osteology, the discovery of the feeder holes of the bones whose it included/understood the physiological role. In Neurology, it describes the Trijumeau, the phrenic nerve and the chain sympathetic nerve of the Pneumogastrique. It is the first to mention the venous valves of the liver, in 1539, in its book De Dissectione Partium Corporis Humani Libri Tres (which appears in 1545). In 1751, Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) calls it primus valvularum auctor . But the veins of the liver are difficult to observe, and the history will retain another name for the discovery of these valves, Girolamo Fabrizi d' Acquapendente (1537 - 1619).

Printer

In 1550, following the escape of his/her brother Robert Estienne with Geneva, it must take again the direction of family printing works and sign its misfortune. It gave in 1551, according to the manuscripts of the library of the king and with the characters of Garamond the first edition of the Greek text of Appien. Draud was mistaken by quoting a Traité in Plutarque left its presses in 1544. II appears that Charles Estienne had almost at once the title of printer of the king, since one gives it to him in a letter patent of the February 26th 1552. Jean Maumont, while writing with Scaliger, represents Charles Estienne like a miserly and carried man, jealous of its fellow-members and even of its nephews, whom he sought to serve in all the occasions. However it made bad deals, was put at the Châtelet for debts in 1561, and there died in 1564.

Michel Maittaire says that the beautiful editions of Charles Estienne were never exceeded; that it equalized, by its scholarship, the most erudite printers, and that it of it is little which published more works than him in such a short space of time. It left a girl, named Nicole.

Publications

Charles Estienne is author of several works which one will find the complete listing in the Mémoires of Niceron, T. 56.

One will be satisfied to indicate here:

Of vasculis libellus, adulescentulorum caused ex Baysio decerptus. Additavulgari Latinarum vocum interpretatione . Paris Charles Estienne 1536;
Of Re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adulescentulorum gratiam atque utilitatem . Lyon (Nickel silver & Gaspar Trechsel), 1536, Paris, 1555, in-8°;
Seminarium, and Plantarium fructiferarum praesertim arborum quae post hortos conseri solent, Denuo auctum & locupletatum. Huic certificate of merit alter libellus of conserendis arboribus in seminario: deque iis in atque plantarium transserendis inserendis . 1536, Paris: Roberti Stephani, 1540;
Of Re hortensi libellus, vulgaria herbarum, florum, ac fructicum. who in hortis conseri solent, nominated Latinis vocibus effere docens ex probatis autoribus. In puerorum gratium atq (ue) utilitatem . Estienne, 1539. Paris, Robert Estienne 1543, Paris Rob. Stephani 1545 ;
the Dissection of the parts of the Human body divided into three books . Simon de Colines, Paris, 1546, French translation of De Dissectione partium corporis humani . ;
Of nutrimentis, ace baillyum . Robert Estienne, 1550.
Shortened History of the Viscounts and dukes of Milan , extracts partly from Paul Jove, 1552, in-4°;
Paradoxes, they are matter against the common opinion: debatuz, in the form of declamations forenses: for exerciter children, in difficult causes . Paris, Charles Estienne, 1553;
Dictionarium historicum ac poeticum: omnia gentium, hominum, locorum, fluminum, ac montium antiqua recentioramque AD crowned ac prophanas historias, Po? tarumque confabulated intelligendas necessaria, vocabula, bono processes complectens. Nunc demum ultra praecedentes impress, studiosorum aliquot opera & locupletius & nitidius redditum . 1553, Parisiis, apud Ioannem Macaeum, 1572;
Dictionarium latino-grœcum , Paris, 1554, in-4°;
Dictionarium latino-gallicum , Paris, in-fol. ;
Praedium rusticum, In Quo Cuiusuis Soli vel Culti vel Inculti Platarum Vocabula ac Descriptiones, Earumque Conseredarum atque Excolendarum Instrumented suo Ordine Describuntur . Paris, 1554;
First comedy of Terence, entitled Andrie, translated into prose , Paris, in-16;
Comedy of the SACRIFICE, the professors of the academy senoise named INTRONATI, translated Tuscan language , Lyon, 1543, in-8°; reprinted under the title of the Deceived , Paris, 1556, in-16. The Italian part is entitled: Gli ingannati ;
Thesaurus Ciceronis , Paris, 1556, in-fol. ;
Dictionarium historico-geographico-poeticum , Geneva, in-4°;
figures and portraicts of the parts of the human body . Paris: Jacques Kerver, 1575.
Lexicon historicum, geographicum, poeticum. Hanc postremam editionem EDF. Morellus. ita recensuit ac recognovit . Parisiis, apud Joannem Libert, 1644.

The rustic House

It is a true encyclopedia of the life in the countryside. Many chapters relate to the gastronomy and drives out:

agriculture and rustic house. More one short collection of huntings of the stag, wild boar, hare, the fox, the blereau, the connil, the wolf, the birds & the fauconnery. Item, the factory and use of the gauge or tuning fork… Lyon, Carteron, 1645, Lyon: Andre Laurens, 1702.
New Rustic House or General economy of all the Goods of Countryside Manner Of maintaining them & Of multiplying them ; Data above with the Public by Sieur Liger: Tenth Edition Increased considerably, & Put in better order… Paris At Durand, Nephew, Bookseller, 1775.

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