Lazare de Baïf
French diplomat and humanist
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| Intro | French diplomat and humanist | ||
| Places | France | ||
| was | Linguist Diplomat Poet Translator Philosopher Scholar Classical scholar | ||
| Work field | Academia Literature Philosophy Social science Politics | ||
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| Birth | 1496, La Flèche, France | ||
| Death | 1547Paris, France (aged 51 years) | ||
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Lazare de Baïf (1496–1547) was a French diplomat and humanist. His natural son, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, was born in Venice, while Lazare was French ambassador there.
He published a translation of the Electra of Sophocles in 1537, and afterwards a version of the Hecuba. He was an elegant writer of Latin verse, and is commended by Joachim du Bellay as having introduced certain valuable words into the French language.