1880 – 1958
Augustin Renaudet (1880–1958) was a French historian of ideas specializing in Renaissance humanism and the pre-Reformation intellectual milieu of France. He is best known for his landmark study of Parisian humanism in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, tracing the intersections of scholasticism, evangelical reform, and Renaissance learning. His work brought sustained scholarly attention to figures such as Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and Guillaume Budé as transitional thinkers between medieval and modern thought.
Authored Préréforme et Humanisme à Paris (1916), a foundational study of French Renaissance intellectual culture
Pioneered systematic historical analysis of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and his circle
Documented the relationship between Erasmian reform and French scholastic traditions
Contributed to the historiography of the transition from medieval Aristotelianism to Renaissance humanism
Established methodological frameworks for studying pre-Reformation religious and philosophical reform movements