Joseph Naudet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Naudet

French historian

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1786

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 13-Aug-1878

Profession: professor, librarian, historian, translator

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Joseph Naudet (8 December 1786 – 13 August 1878) was a French historian who was a native of Paris. He initially worked at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and was later a teacher of Latin poetry at the Collège de France.
In 1817 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, where in 1852 he was appointed "secrétaire perpétuel".
Naudet was also a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and served as curator of the Bibliothèque Mazarine. Among his written works was a three-volume edition of the comedies of Plautus titled- M.
Accii Plauti Comoediae (1830) and a work on Roman nobility called De la noblesse chez les Romains (1868).
He also edited and translated works by Catullus, Horace, Lucan, Sallust, Seneca and Tacitus.
With Pierre Daunou (1761-1840), he edited the twentieth volume of Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France (Compendium of Historians of Gaul and France).