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BONGARS, JACQUES (1554-1612)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 204 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BONGARS, JACQUES (1554-1612) , See also:French See also:scholar and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Orleans, and was brought up in the reformed faith. He obtained his See also:early See also:education at See also:Marburg and See also:Jena, and returning to See also:France continued his studies at Orleans and See also:Bourges. After spending some See also:time in See also:Rome he visited eastern See also:Europe, and subsequently made the acquaintance of See also:Segur See also:Pardaillan, a representative of See also:Henry, See also:king of See also:Navarre, after-wards Henry IV. of France. He entered the service of Pardaillan, and in 1587 was sent on a See also:mission to many of the princes of See also:northern Europe, after which he visited See also:England to obtain help from See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth for Henry of Navarre. He continued to serve Henry as a diplomatist, and in 1593 became the representative of the French king at the courts of the imperial princes. Vigorously seconding the efforts of Henry to curtail the See also:power of the See also:house of See also:Habsburg, he spent See also:health and See also:money ungrudgingly in this service, and continued his labours until the king's See also:murder in 1610. He then returned to France, and died at See also:Paris on the nth of See also:July 1612. Bongars wrote an abridgment of See also:Justin's abridgment of the See also:history of See also:Trogus Pompeius under the See also:title Justinus, Trogi See also:Pompeii Historiarum Philippicarum epitoma de manuscriptis codicibus emendatior et prologis auctior (Paris, 1581). He collected the See also:works of several French writers who as contemporaries described the See also:crusades, and published them under the title Gesta Dei per Francos (See also:Hanover, 1611). Another collection made by Bongars is the Rerum Hungaricarum scriptores varii (See also:Frankfort, 1600). His Epistolae were published at See also:Leiden in 1647, and a French See also:translation at Paris in 1668-1670. Many of his papers are preserved in the library at See also:Bern, to which they were presented in 1632, and a See also:list of them was made in 1634.

Other papers and copies of instructions are now in several See also:

libraries in Paris; and copies of other instructions are in the See also:British Museum. See H. See also:Hagen, Jacobus Bongarsius (Bern, 1874) ; L. Anquez, See also:Henri IV et l'Allemagne (Paris, 1887).

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