Naudé is a precursor of Pierre Bayle and Fontenelle.

In the introduction of his book, Naudé wrote that he is not an expert in the field of librarianship but he presented what he believed to be the most important ideas.

* 10 May-Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, cleric, theologian and activist, is born in Roodepoort, Transvaal ( died 2004 ).

Naudé was able to travel Europe, and during one trip that lasted several months he collected over 14, 000 volumes.

Naudé was called " one of the true Christian prophets of our time " by the acting secretary of the World Council of Churches, Georges Lemopoulos.

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Gabriel Naudé ( 2 February 1600 – 10 July 1653 ) was a French librarian and scholar.

The progenitor of the Naudé name was a French Huguenot refugee named Jacques Naudé who arrived in the Cape in 1718.

The Exercitationes are renowned for their display of encyclopaedic wealth of knowledge, the vigour of the author's style, and the accuracy of his observations ; at the same time, as Gabriel Naudé noted, they contain more faults than those Scaliger has discovered in Cardan.

Naudé suggested purchasing books in the original languages because meaning can often be lost in translation.

Jozua François (' Tom ') Naudé ( 15 April 1889, Middelburg, Eastern Cape – 31 May 1969 ) served as Acting State President of South Africa from 1967 to 1968.

Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé ( 10 May 1915 – 7 September 2004 ) was a South African cleric, theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist.

Naudé was ordained in 1939 as a minister in the South African Dutch Reformed Church and joined the Broederbond as its youngest member.

Naudé, by then the moderator of his church district ( the Southern Transvaal Synod ), helped to organize a consultation between the WCC and eighty South African church delegates in Cottesloe, a Johannesburg suburb.

In 1970 Naudé was among few white South African Christian leaders " who openly called for understanding of the WCC decision " to provide financial support for liberation movements in southern Africa.

" If blood runs in the streets of South Africa it will not be because the World Council of Churches has done something but because the churches of South Africa have done nothing ," Naudé said.

From 1977 to 1984 the South African government " banned " Naudé — a form of house arrest with severe restrictions on his movements and interactions.

Although under constant police surveillance, Naudé managed to secretly help anti-apartheid resistors move around and out of South Africa by providing them with old vehicles that he had repaired himself.

After his term at the South African Council of Churches ended, Naudé continued to serve a number of anti-apartheid and development organizations, including the South African Legal Defence and Aid Fund, the Ecumenical Service for Socio-Economic Transformation, Kagiso Trust, and the Editorial Board of Challenge Magazine.

During his life Naudé received several honors, including the Bruno Kreisky Award ( Germany, 1979 ), the Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award ( USA, 1984 ), the African American Institute Award ( USA, 1985 ), Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award ( USA, 1985 ), the Swedish Labour Movement Award ( Sweden, 1988 ), the Order of Oranje-Nassau ( Netherlands, 1995 ), Order for Meritorious Service ( Gold ) ( South Africa, 1997 ), and the Order of Merit ( Germany, 1999 ).

In 2004 Naudé was voted 36th among Top 100 Great South Africans in an informal poll conducted by a television program of the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

* Jozua François Naudé becomes the 2nd State President of South Africa

In 1963 Naudé founded the Christian Institute of Southern Africa ( CI ), an ecumenical organization with the aim of fostering reconciliation through interracial dialogue, research, and publications.

In 1980 Naudé and three other DRC theologians broke with the DRC and was accepted as clergy by the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, the black African denomination established by the white Dutch Reformed Church.

After his death at 89 on 7 September 2004, Nelson Mandela eulogized Naudé as " a true humanitarian and a true son of Africa.

The legend inspired a variety of works, among them the works of Michael Maier ( 1568 – 1622 ) of Germany ; Robert Fludd ( 1574 – 1637 ) and Elias Ashmole ( 1617 – 1692 ) of England ; Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, Gotthardus Arthusius, Julius Sperber, Henricus Madathanus, Gabriel Naudé, Thomas Vaughan, and others.

In 1651 he went to Paris, where he formed a friendship with Gabriel Naudé, conservator of the Mazarin Library.

Naudé was later able to put into practice all the ideas he put forth in Advice, when he was given the opportunity to build and maintain the library of Cardinal Jules Mazarin.

Naudé was born in Paris in early 1600 to a family of modest means.

Naudé entered college at a young age where he studied philosophy and grammar.

At the age of twenty, Naudé published his first book Le Marfore ou Discours Contre les Lisbelles.

Mesme offered Naudé the job of librarian to his personal collection.

Naudé wrote Advice for Mesme as a guide for building and maintaining his library.

Richelieu intended to make Naudé his librarian, and on his death Naudé accepted a similar offer from Cardinal Mazarin.

Like Naudé, he believed in an open library to be used by the public for the public good.

In 1642 he purchased a building to house his library and he instructed Naudé to build up the finest collection possible.

The fastest way was to absorb entire libraries into the collection, advice that Naudé included in his book.

Naudé plundered second hand book sellers, and Mazarin instructed his ambassadors, government officials and generals to collect books for him.

Mazarin's library was sold by the parlement of Paris during the troubles of the Fronde, and Queen Christina invited Naudé to Stockholm.

He was not happy in Sweden, and on Mazarin's appeal that he should re-form his scattered library Naudé returned at once.

The friend of Gui Patin, of Pierre Gassendi and all the liberal thinkers of his time, Naudé was no mere bookworm ; his books show traces of the critical spirit which made him a worthy colleague of the humorists and scholars who prepared the way for the better known writers of the siècle de Louis XIV.