Hubert Languet
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Hubert Languet (1518 – 30 September 1581, in
Life
Languet was born in 1518 in
He entered the University of Poitiers in order to study law but he was interested also in theology, history, and science and political science. He visited the universities of Padua and Bologna, and traveled in Italy and Spain.
He was greatly influenced by
In 1559 Languet, on the recommendation of Melanchthon, entered the service of the
As a friend of Melanchthon he opposed the growing party of strict Lutherans; but still he did everything in his power to reconcile the opposing parties, even trying to effect the recognition of the French
In 1571 the elector sent him together with the ambassadors of other Protestant princes of
From 1573 to 1576 he was at the court of
Works
Languet is one possible candidate for the authorship of the influential Huguenot pamphlet, Vindiciae contra tyrannos (1579).[1] The book is divided into four parts each of which proposes and answers a question:
- Must God in a case of dispute be obeyed rather than a ruler?
- May a ruler who violates the law of God and devastates the Church, be opposed?
- How far, and with what right may it be allowed to oppose a ruler who suppresses or destroys the state?
- Have neighboring rulers a right to assist the subjects oppressed by his ruler?
Notes
- ^ Ernest Barker, "The Authorship of the Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos," Cambridge Historical Journal (1930)
References
The correspondence with the Elector August of Saxony and with Mordeisen were edited by T. P. Ludovicus under the title Arcana seculi xvi. (Halle, 1699). Other collections of letters are Epistolae politicae et historicae ad P. Sydnaeum (Frankfort, 1633); Epistolae ad J. Camerarium, Patrem et filium (Groningen, 1646).
- Pears, Steuart A., The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet, subtitled now first collected and translated from the latin with notes and a memoir of Sidney, Wiliam Pickering, London, 1845; Gregg International Publishers, Ltd., Farnborough, 1971: (Pears, Steuart Adolphus).
- Bradley, William Aspenwall, Ed. The Correspondence of Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet (The Humanist's Library V, Einstein, Lewis, Ed.), The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1912. (also includes two letters from Sidney to his brother Robert and biographical notes)
- (in French) Béatrice Nicollier : Hubert Languet (1518 - 1581) : un réseau politique international de Mélanchthon à Guillaume D'Orange, Ed. Droz, 1995, ISBN 2600000968
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.