Germain de Brie [SEP] date of birth
Germain de Brie
Germain de Brie (1490–1538), sometimes Latinized as Germanus Brixius, was a Renaissance French humanist scholar and poet. He was closely associated with Erasmus and had a well-known literary feud with Thomas More.
Early life.
Germain de Brie was born in Auxerre, France, where he first studied law. He then travelled widely, becoming a college friend of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. From 1508 he studied under John Lascaris, at this time becoming a friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam.
playwright and novelist Suzanne Bodin de Boismortier was his daughter.
At the composer's request, he was buried in the Eglise Saint Germain, in Roissy-en-Brie.
A quotation.
The music theorist Jean-Benjamin de la Borde wrote in his (Essay on ancient and modern music) in 1780 about Boismortier: (Happy is Boismortier, whose fertile pen can give birth without pain to a whole new volume of music every month.)
In response to such comments, it is said that Boismortier