Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Geille
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1519
Category Archives: writer
Dávid Baróti Szabó 1739-1819
Hungarian Jesuit priest, poet, writer and linguist.
Artist: Klime
Date:1790
Size 10 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:854
François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier 1755-1838
François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier, was a notable French politician and political writer during the First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy. He was the youngest of a large family belonging to the poorer nobility
Artist: N.Maurin
Date:
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2201
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens 1704-1771
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great
Artist: Frisch
Date:
Size 5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2845
Antonio Albizzi 1547-1626
Italian jurist and genealogist, born in Florence in 1547. In 1576 he was in the service of Cardinal-Archduke Andreas of Austria. In 1585 he converted to Lutheranism and spent the rest of his life in the Protestant Imperial City of Kempten, where he died in 1626. His most famous work was Principum Christianorum Stemmata
Size 12 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:908
Peter Müller 1640-1696
German legal scientist. From 1676 to 1693 he taught at the University of Jena and held the rectorate there twice. From 1693 until his death he was Chancellor of Counts Reuss.
Artist: Philipp Kilian
Date:1680
Size 15 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2252
Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf 1663-1732
Christoph VII Fürer von Haimendorf auf Wolkersdorf (born July 11, 1663 in Haimendorf; † May 3, 1732 in Nuremberg), imperial councilor, councilor of the imperial city of Nuremberg, was a poet in the transitional period between the Baroque and Enlightenment. He translated, among other things, Works by Pierre Corneille and Torquato Tasso into German, was president of the Pegnesian Order of Flowers, a linguistic and literary society with a bucolic background, from 1709 under the pseudonym Lilidor I (the lily bearer, after the coat of arms of the Fürer von Haimendorf family).
Artist: Ulrich
Date:
Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2602
Jacques Auguste de Thou 1553-1617
French historian and collector, called ‘president’ after his rank in the Paris Parliament
Size 4.5 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:955
Christian Gottfried Hoffmann 1692-1735
The son of the educator Gottfried Hoffmann (1658–1712) attended the high school in his hometown and entered the University of Leipzig in 1711. Here he first studied the philosophical sciences, which he completed in 1714 by receiving a master’s degree in philosophy. He then concentrated on studying law, secured his living as a tutor to nobles and received his doctorate in law from the University of Halle in 1716.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2491
Charles Jean Francois Henault 1685-1770
Hénault was born in Paris. His father, René Jean Rémy Hénault de Cantobre (1648–1737) a farmer-general of taxes, Ferme générale, was a man of literary tastes, and young Hénault obtained a good education at the Jesuit college, Lycée Louis-le-Grand. His mother was Françoise de Ponthon (died 1738)
Artist: Voyez
Date:
Size 18 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2112