Creator

Maximilien Bourgeois

Creation-date

1888

Technique

Sculpture

Material

Marble

Inventory number

-

Subject-1

Collège de France

Object-Current-Location

Collège de France, Paris

Digital resource author

GrECI Project

Digital-resource-rights holder

University of Franche Comté (for GrECI project)

Image-number

052_RP_7

License

CC BY

Description

The study and dissemination of Greek paralleled the religious revival that characterised the first decades of the 16th century. Following the example of other cities such as Louvain and Rome, and thanks to the efforts and requests of humanists such as Guillaume Budé, chairs of "lecteurs royaux", scholars and teachers at the same time, were created in France for Greek and Hebrew in 1530, marking the birth of the future Collège de France. Applying their linguistic knowledge to biblical texts, the royal readers were confronted by theologians from the University of Paris.