Charles Estienne

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Charles Estienne (1504 or 1505 - 1564), the third son of Henri Estienne, was, like his brother Robert, a man of considerable learning.

After the usual humanistic training he studied medicine, and took his doctor's degree at Paris. He was for a time tutor to Jean-Antoine de Baïf, the future poet. In 1551, when Robert Estienne left Paris for Geneva, Charles, who had remained a Catholic, took charge of his printing establishment, and in the same year was appointed king's printer. In 1561 he became bankrupt, and he is said to have died in a debtors' prison.

His principal works are:

Praedium Rusticum (1554), a collection of tracts which he had compiled from ancient writers on various branches of agriculture, and which continued to be a favorite book down to the end of the 17th century
Dictionarium historicum ad policum (1553), the first French encyclopedia
Thesaurus Ciceronianus (1557)
De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, with well-drawn woodcuts (1548)

He also published a translation of an Italian comedy, Gli Ingannati, under the title of Le Sacrifice (1543; republished as Les Abuse, 1549), which had some influence on the development of French comedy; and Paradoxes (1553), an imitation of the Paradossi of Ortensio Landi.

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