Fronton du Duc
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Fronton du Duc (
Jesuit
theologian.
Life
Fronton du Duc was born at
Du Plessis-Mornay
. The Protestant publicist made a reply to which Fronton de Duc rejoined in 1602. Librarian from 1604 of the Collège de Clermont, he reorganized the library, which had been scattered during the period in which the Jesuits had been obliged to abandon the school. While holding this position he also taught (1618–23) positive theology. He died at Paris.
Works
At the suggestion of
Margarin de la Bigne
known as the "Sacra Bibliotheca Sanctorum Patrum".
After the death of Fronton du Duc there was issued an edition of
Nicephorus Callistus (Paris, 1620, 2 vols. in folio) which he had undertaken. This edition follows a Vienna manuscript that had belonged to the library of Matthias Corvinus; its publication had been delayed by a series of complications in which the political schemes of Richelieu
were involved.
Fronton du Duc had also occupied himself with the Greek texts of the Bible and had begun a revision of the text, but this was not completed.
References
- François Oudin, in Nicéron, Memoires pour servir à l'historie des hommes illustres de la république des lettres (Paris, 1737), XXXVIII, 103;
- Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la c. de J. (Paris, 1897), III, 233–249.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Fronton du Duc". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
