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 Greek to the young Thomas Bodley and was the father of François Béroalde de Verville.

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