André de Gouveia
André de Gouveia | |
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Born | 1497 Beja, Kingdom of Portugal |
Died | 9 June 1548 , Kingdom of Portugal |
Occupation(s) | Humanist, pedagogue |
André de Gouveia (1497 – 9 June 1548) was a
Biography
André de Gouveia became one of the first Portuguese to study in the Collège Sainte-Barbe, in Paris, which was then directed by his uncle Diogo de Gouveia. After attending six years in Maîtrise des Arts he earned a degree as doctor in theology, and simultaneously, began teaching at the college.
Starting in 1530, due to the many diplomatic missions that kept his uncle away, André was entrusted by him with the direction of the Collège. As an adept of the most advanced religious ideas, André de Gouveia bent Saint Barbe into the Humanist ideals. There in 1531 he appointed regent
He left to take charge as principal of the College of Guienne, in Bordeaux. He had been invited by the municipal authorities, and was given full freedom to modernize the old college.[2] On arrival, Gouveia proclaimed that he would not recognize differences of creed in staff and pupils, many of whom showed sympathy to the new doctrines of the Reform.[3] There, in 1539, Gouveia welcomed George Buchanan, appointing him professor of Latin.
Gouveia's stay at the College of Guienne lasted until 1547, attracting students like Étienne de La Boétie and Michel de Montaigne, who later in his Essays described Gouveia as " ...behind comparison the greatest principal in France."[4] The fame of the teaching -mainly grammar, classical literature, history and philosophy - was such that, in 1552, Italian scholar and physician Julius Caesar Scaliger sent his sons to the college, including Joseph Justus Scaliger.
André de Gouveia returned to Portugal at the invitation of
Rivalry between the secular trends of the new "Bordeaux" teachers, and the more orthodox method of the "Parisian" school headed by Diogo de Gouveia led several teachers, including George Buchanan, to face the Inquisition: Gouveia kept numerous contacts with European scholars and Portuguese businesses when he was in France. At odds with his uncle Diogo, André was suspected of Lutheranism.[6]
He left a few written texts. In particular, his views are represented in regulations of the College of Guienne, published by
References
- ISBN 2-915540-35-7, in French
- ISBN 0-226-46733-3. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ a b Woodward, William Harrison (1924). Studies in education during the age of the Renaissance, 1400-1600Volume 2 of Contributions to the history of education. CUP Archive. p. 139.
- ISBN 0-226-46733-3. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ Hooykaas, Reijer (1979). The Erasmian influence on D. João de Castro (1st,UC Biblioteca Geral 1, 1979 ed.). Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ISBN 90-247-0195-3. Retrieved 2010-12-06.