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Paul Jérémie Bitaubé

Kaliningrad 1732-11-24 – 1808-11-22 Paris German, French, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Main: Berlin Paris Other: Bernau bei Berlin cleric poet professor translator writer Paul-Jérémie Bitaubé, 1732-1808 (viaf) Paul Jérémie Bitaubé (wikidata)

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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).