Paul Jérémie Bitaubé
Contributions
- Les Bataves has translation author
Knows
- Fanny de Beauharnais poet salonnière writer
- Napoléon Bonaparte military politician writer
- Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville abolitionist bookseller entrepreneur freemason pamphleteer politician publisher translator writer
- Jean-Gabriel Dentu bookseller publisher writer
- Jean-François Ducis playwright poet writer
- Frederick II of Prussia military politician
- Jean-Baptiste Garnéry bookseller publisher
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert philosopher scientist writer
- Marie-Charles-Joseph de Pougens publisher translator writer
- Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière civil servant politician scientist writer
- François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire philosopher writer
Member of
- Institut national des Sciences et Arts academic institution
- Legion of Honor political organisation
- Société patriotique de 1789 political organisation
Notes
Calvinist pastor born in Prussia to French Huguenots. Best known for his translations of Homer's 'Odyssey' and 'Iliad', which brought him the attention of Jean le Rond d'Alembert who recommended him to Frederick II. He also translated Goethe's 'Hermann et Dorothée' (1795). His most famous poem was 'Joseph' (1767). Bitaubé was elected to the Prussian Academy and, later, as President of the Institut de France in 1795. He was briefly imprisoned in 1793–1794 as a suspect person and only released after the fall of Robespierre, receiving a pension soon after. His intellectual and literary reputation was equally great in both countries.
For more information, see Pascale Hummel, "P-J Bitaubé, un philologue binational au XVIIIe siecle", in International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Vol.2, no.4 (spring 1996).