Jean Baptist Lefebvre de Villebrune

Biography

Jean Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune exerts initially the Médecine, which it gives up to study the languages. He is Hebrew professor of to the Collège de France of 1791 with 1794. He exerts the functions of Bibliothécaire as a chief with the National library of France of 1794 with 1795. In 1797, it leaves Paris to fix itself at Angouleme, where it teaches successively the natural history and humanities.

Polyglot, it translated many works of the old Greek , Latin , Spanish , Italian , English, German and Swedish. Its most important translation is that of the Banquet of the scientists of Athénée on the Gastronomie of the Greeks. Its contemporaries were sulky it, reproaching him a lack of elegance and fidelity, although this work presented great difficulties.

Publications

Translations

of German: Johann Georg von Zimmermann, Treated experiment in general, and in particular in art to cure (3 volumes, 1774)
of German: Johann Georg von Zimmermann, Treated dysentery (1775)
of Spanish: Miguel de Cervantes, New Spanish of Michel de Cervantès. New translation with notes (2 volumes, 1775-77)
of Italian: Anton Francesco Grazzini, the News of Antoine-François Grazzini, known as Lasca (2 volumes, 1776)
of Swedish: the Nile Rosén von Rosenstein, Treated diseases of the enfans, work which is the fruit of a long observation, & supported on the most authentic facts (1778)
of Latin: Silius Italicus : Second Punic War, poem of Silius Italicus, corrected on 4 manuscripts and the invaluable edition of Pomponius, given in 1471 (3 volumes, 1785)
of Italian: Riguccio Galluzzi, History of the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany under the government of Médicis (9 volumes, 1782-84)
of English: William Hamilton, historical Details of the ground tremblemens arrived to Italy, since February 5th until May 1783, by Mr. the knight Hamilton (1783)
of the Greek: Épictète and of Zénon d' Élée, Manual of Épictète: in Greek, with a French translation; preceded by a speech against the morals of Zénon d' Élée, & against the suicide (1783)
of English: Michael Underwood, Treated on the ulcers of the legs, preceded by remarks in the form of introduction on the process by the ulceration and the origin of the creditable pus; follow-up of a happy method to treat certain scrophuleuses tumors, ulcers of the nipples, cracks of the center and abscesses milky, by Mr. Michel Underwood. One joined there the method of fire Mr. Else, to treat the ulcers of the legs (1785)
of English: William Grant, Recherches on the fevers according to whether they depend on the variations of the seasons and such as one them observed in London these twenty last years (3 volumes, 1783-85)
of Italian: Filippo Baldini, Manner of nursing the enfans with the hand, the defect of the nurses (1786)
of the Greek: Hippocrates, Works of Hippocrates. Aphorisms (3 volumes, 1786-Year VII)
of Spanish: Antonio de Ulloa, philosophical, historical, physical Memories: concerning the discovery of America, its old habitans, their manners, their uses, their connection with new the habitans, their old & modern religion, the products of the three reigns of nature, & in particular the mines, their exploitation, their immense produced ignored jusquici (2 volumes, 1787)
of Italian: Gian Rinaldo Carli, American Letters to serve of following the Memories of D. Ulloa, by Mr. Count J.R. Carli (2 volumes, 1788)
of the Greek: Athenaeum, Banquet of the savans (5 volumes, 1789-91)
of German: Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Treated periodic diseases without fever, or history of these diseases, with the true curative method which should be followed to cure them (1790)

Varied

Dictionary of the particles angloises, preceded by a reasoned grammar, work in which all difficulties of language are levelled, and where one will find all the means of hearing it and of writing it in little time, the whole reported with use (1774)
the royal Bouquet, impromptu in prose and light comedies, arranged so as to be able to be played with each festival royal, using the alternatives, represented for the first time on the theaters of Orleans, Moulins and other cities, the following January 1st, 1815 and days (1815)

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