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HUBERT See also: born at Vitteaux in See also: Burgundy, of which See also: town his See also: father was governor
.
He received his early See also: education from a distinguished Hellenist, See also: Jean Perelle, and displayed remarkable ability in See also: Greek and Latin
.
He studied See also: law, See also: theology and science at the university of See also: Poitiers from 1536 to 1539; then, after some travel, attended the See also: universities of Bologna and See also: Padua, receiving the doctorate from the latter in 1548, At Bologna he read See also: Melanchthon's Loci communes theologiae and was so impressed by it that in 1549 he went to See also: Wittenberg to see the author, and shortly afterwards became a See also: Protestant
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He made his headquarters at Wittenberg until the See also: death of Melanchthon in 156o, although during that See also: period, as well as throughout the rest of his See also: life, he travelled extensively in See also: France, See also: Italy, See also: Spain, See also: Germany, Sweden, and even Finland and See also: Lapland
.
In 1557 he declined the invitation of Gustavus I. to enter the service of Sweden, but two years later accepted a similar invitation of See also: Augustus I., elector of See also: Saxony
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He showed See also: great ability in See also: diplomacy, particularly in organizing the Protestants
.
He represented the elector at the French See also: court from 1561 to 1J72 except when the religious and See also: political troubles in France occasionally compelled him temporarily to withdraw
.
He performed many minor See also: diplomatic See also: missions for the elector, and in 1567 accompanied him to the siege of See also: Gotha
.
He delivered a violent harangue before See also: Charles IX. of France in 1570 on behalf of the Protestant princes, and escaped death on St Bartholomew's
See also: Day (1572) only through the intervention of Jean de Morvilliers, the moderate and influential See also: bishop of See also: Orleans
.
He represented the elector of Saxony at the imperial court from 1573 to 1577
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See also: Financial embarrassment and disgust at the Protestant controversies in which he was forced to participate caused him to seek recall from the imperial court
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His See also: request being granted, See also: Languet spent the last years of his life mainly in the Low Countries, and though nominally still in the service of the elector, he undertook a See also: mission to See also: England for See also: John Casimir of
See also: Bavaria and was a valuable adviser to See also: William the Silent,
See also: prince of Orange
.
Languet died at See also: Antwerp on the 3oth of See also: September 1581
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His See also: correspondence is important for the See also: history of the 16th century
.
Three See also: hundred and twenty-nine letters to Augustus of Saxony dating from the 17th of See also: November 1565 to the 8th of September 1581, and one hundred and eleven letters to the chancellor Mordeisen dating from November 1559 to the summer of 1565, are preserved in MS. in the Saxon archives, and were published by Ludovicus at See also: Halle in 1699 See also: miller the title Arcana seculi decimi sexti
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One hundred and eight letters to See also: Camerarius were published at See also: Groningen in 1646 under the title Langueti Epistolae ad Joach
.
Camerarium, patrem el filium; and ninety-six to his great friend See also: Sir See also: Philip
See also: Sidney, dating from the 22nd of See also: April 1573 to the 28th of See also: October 158o, appeared at See also: Frankfort in 1633 and have been translated into See also: English by S
.
A
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See also: Pears (See also: London, 1845)
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The Historica Descriptio of the siege and capture of Gotha appeared in 1568 and has been translated into French and See also: German
.
The authorship of the See also: work by which Languet is best known has been disputed
.
It is
entitled Vindiciae contra tyrannos, sive de principis in populum populique in principem legitima potestate, See also: Stephan(' Junio Bruto Celia
auctore, and is thought to have been published at See also: Basel (1579)
See also: LANIER 181
although it bears the imprint of See also: Edinburgh
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It has been attributed to Beza, See also: Hotman, Casaubon and Duplessis-See also: Mornay, by See also: divers writers on various grounds—to the last-named on the very respectable authority of See also: Grotius
.
The authorship of Languet was supported by See also: Peter See also: Bayle (for reasons stated in the See also: form of a supplement to the Dictionnaire) and confirmed by practically all later writers
.
The work has been frequently reprinted, the See also: Leipzig edition (1846) containing a life of Languet by See also: Treitschke
.
A French See also: translation appeared in 1581 and an English translation in 1689
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The work upholds the See also: doctrine of resistance, but affirms that resistance must come from properly constituted authorities and See also: objects to anything which savours of anabaptism or other extreme views
.
The Apologie ou
defence du See also: tees illustre Prince Guillaume contre le See also: ban et l'edit du roi
d'Espagne (See also: Leiden, 1581) is sometimes attributed to Languet
.
There seems little doubt, however, that it was really the work of the prince himself, with the help either of Languet (Groen See also: van Prinsterer, Archives) or of See also: Pierre de See also: Villiers (Motley, Rise of the Dutch Republic; and Blok, History of the See also: People of the See also: Netherlands)
.
See Ph. de la See also: Mare, See also: Vie d'Hubert Languet (Halle, 1700) ; E. and E
.
Haag, La France protestante; H
.
See also: Chevreul, Hubert Languet (See also: Paris
.
1852); J
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Blasel, Hubert Languet (See also: Breslau, 1872); O
.
Scholz, Hubert Languet als kursachsischer Berichterstatter u
.
Gesandter in Frankreich wahrend 1560–1572 (Halle, 1875) ; G
.
Touchard, De politica Huberti Langueti (Paris, 1898) . There is a See also: good article on Languet by P
.
Tschackert in Hauck's Real-Encyklopadie, 3rd ed., xi
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274-280
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