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Michel de Montaigne
French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 28 February 1533
- Died
- 12 September 1592, 13 September 1592
- Place of birth
- Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne
- Place of death
- Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Montaigne
- Child
- Léonor de Montaigne
- Field of work
- philosophy, translation from Latin, translation into French, essay, autobiography, politics, poetry, prose, morality, skepticism
- Occupation
- philosopher, translator, jurist, essayist, autobiographer, politician, poet lawyer, French moralist, writer, poet, prose writer
- Position held
- mayor of Bordeaux
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Native language
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church, Catholicism
- attested in
- Mare Magnum (vol. 82)
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The American Cyclopædia, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, The New Student's Reference Work
- educated at
- College of Guienne, University of Toulouse (1896-1968)
- has works in the collection
- Geldersch Landschap en Kasteelen
- notable work
- Essays
- relative
- Jean de Ségur, Pierre Eyquem de la Brousse
- significant person
- Étienne de La Boétie
- student of
- Muretus, George Buchanan
- topic's main category
- Category:Michel de Montaigne
- work location
- France
- writing language
- Middle French
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