Guillaume Postel was a French scholar, linguist and theologian who lived during the Renaissance. He was born in Rouen, France, and was educated at the University of Paris. Postel was a proponent of the humanist movement, which sought to revive the study of the Classical world and its values, and was an avid student of languages. He was fluent in several languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac.
Postel was a proponent of the unity of all religions and of the reconciliation of science and religion. He was a strong advocate of the use of reason and dialogue in order to bring about peace and understanding between people of different backgrounds. He wrote extensively on the subject, and his most famous work was De la Réconciliation des Dogmes, which was published in 1530.
Postel also wrote extensively on astrology, alchemy and the occult. He believed that the secrets of the universe could be found through understanding the arcane sciences. He wrote several books on these subjects, including De Occulta Philosophia, which was published in 1545.
Abrahami patriarchae liber Jezirah. Paris 1552 ➤
Absconditorum à constitutione mundi clavis. Amsterdam, 1646 ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤
Alcorani, seu legis Mahometi et evangelistarum concordiae liber: in quo de calamitatibus orbi christiano imminentibus tractatur: additus est libellus de universalis conversionis, judiciive tempore. Paris, excudebat Pierre Gromors, 1543 ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤
Candelabri typici in Mosis Tabernaculo iussu divino expressi brevis ac dilucida interpretatio. Venezia, 1548 ➤ | ➤
Cosmographicae disciplinae compendium. Basel 1561 ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤
De cosmographica disciplina … libri II. Leiden, 1636 ➤|➤
De Etruriae regionis. Firenze, 1551 ➤
De Etruriae regionis. Leiden, 1723 ➤
De foenicum literis, seu de prisco Latinae et Grecae lingue charactere, ejusque antiquissima origine et usu commentatiuncula. Paris, apud Martin Le Jeune, 1552 ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤
De la republique des Turcs. Poitiers, 1560 ➤
De lingua Phoenicis. Wien, 1554 ➤ | ➤ | ➤
De magistratibus Atheniensium liber ad Gulielmum Poyetum, totius Galliae cancellarium. Paris, apud Michel de Vascosan & Galliot du Pré, 1541 ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤
De magistratibus Atheniensium liber. Basel, 1543 ➤
De magistratibus Atheniensium liber, ad intelligendam non solum Graecorum, sed & Romanorum politiam, ac omnem veterum historiam, lectu utilissimus, postremò iam recognitus, & amplius tertia parte auctus. Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1551] ➤
De magistratibus Atheniensium liber. Leipzig, 1691 ➤ | ➤
De nativitate mediatoris ultima, nunc futura, et toti orbi terrarum in singulis ratione praeditis manifestanda, opus: in quo totius naturae obscuritas, origo & creatio, illustratur ex scriptore Gulielmo postello, apostolica professione sacerdote. Basel 1547 ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤
De orbis terrae concordia libri quatuor, multiiuga eruditione ac pietate referti. [Basel, Johann Oporinus, 1544] ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤ |➤ |➤ | ➤
De originibus seu de Hebraicae linguae et gentis antiquitate, deque variarum linguarum affinitate, liber. Paris, excudebat Pierre Vidoué apud Denis Lescuier, 1538 ➤
De originibus seu de Hebraicae linguae & gentis antiquitate. Paris, 1538 ➤ | ➤ | ➤
De originibus, sev, de varia et potissimum orbi Latino ad hanc diem incognita, aut inconsyderata historia, quum totius orientis, tum maximè tartarorum, persarum, Turcarum origines, & mysteria brachmanum retegente: Guilielmus postellus posteritati eruit, exposuit & proposuit. Basel, per Johann Oporinus, [1553] ➤
De peregrina stella quae superiore anno primum apparere coepit, clariß. Virorum corn. Gemmae Lovaniensis Germani. Et guliel. Postelli barentani galli, ex philosophiae naturalis, mysticaeque theologiae penetralibus deprompta judicia. Basel 1575 ➤ | ➤
De rationibus spiritus sancti Lib. II. Paris, 1543 ➤ | ➤
De republica, sue Magistratibus Athenienssium, 1635 ➤ | ➤ | ➤
De republica, sue Magistratibus Athenienssium liber. Leiden, 1645 ➤
De universitate liber. 1552 ➤ | ➤
De universitate liber. Paris, 1563 ➤
De universitate libri duo. Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1635 ➤ | ➤ | ➤
La doctrine du siecle doré. Paris, 1553 ➤
Epistola … ad C. Schwenckfeldium. 1556 ➤
Eversio falsorum Aristotelis dogmatum. Paris 1552 ➤
Gvilielmi postelli regii in academia Viennensi linguarum peregrinarum et mathematum professoris de linguae phoenicis sive Hebraicae excellentia et de necessario illius et arabicae penes Latinos usv, praefatio, aut potius loquutionis humanaeúe perfectionis panegyris. Wien, excudebat Michael Zimmermann, 1554 ➤
L’Histoire memorable des expeditions. Paris, 1552 ➤
Des histoires orientales. Paris, Jérôme de Marnef et Guillaume Cavellat, 1575 ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤
Liber de causis. Paris, 1552 ➤
Libro de magistrati degli Atheniesi. Venezia, 1543 ➤ | ➤ | ➤ | ➤
Linguarum duodecim characteribus differentium alphabetum. Paris, 1538 ➤ | ➤ | ➤
La loy salique. Paris 1553 ➤ | ➤
Panthenosia. Compositio omnium dissidiorum circa aeternam veritatem aut verisimilitudinem versantium, quae non solum inter eos qui hodie infidelium, judaeorum, haereticorum, et catholicorum nomine uccantur, orta sunt et vigent, sed iam ab admissis per peccatum circa nostrum intellectum tenebris fuere inter ecclesiae peculiaris et communis membra. Scriptore elia pandocheo. [Basel], s.n., [ca. 1550] ➤ | ➤
Le prime nove del altro mondo. 1555 ➤
Quatuor librorum de orbis terrae concordia Primus. 1553 ➤ | ➤
Les raisons de la monarchie. 1551 ➤
Sacrarum apodixeon, seu Euclides christiani lib. II. Paris, 1543 ➤ | ➤ | ➤ |➤ | ➤
Signorum coelestium vera configuratio … expositio. Paris, 1553 ➤ | ➤
Syriae descriptio. 1540 ➤
Vinculum mundi. 1552 ➤