Matthieu Brouard was a French theologian, mathematician, philosopher and historian, who was born in Saint-Denis near

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in 1520, and died in

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on July 15, 1576.Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, tome 4, Michaud, Paris 1843. He is also known as Matthieu Brouart or Béroalde and (in

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) as Mattheus Beroaldus. He taught

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to the young

Thomas Bodley Sir Thomas Bodley (2 March 1545 – 28 January 1613) was an England, English diplomat and Scholarly method, scholar who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Origins Thomas Bodley was born on 2 March 1545, in the second-to-last year of the re ...

and was the father of

François Béroalde de Verville François Béroalde de Verville (27 April 1556 – 19–26 October 1626) was a French Renaissance novelist, poet and intellectual. He was born in Paris, the son of Matthieu Brouard (or Brouart), called "Béroalde", a professor of Agrippa ...

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