BONGARS, JACQUES 0554-1612), French scholar and diplomatist, was born at Orleans and brought up in the reformed faith. He served Henry IV. of France in a long series of diplo matic missions both before and after his accession to the throne. Bongars' works are: an abridgement of Justin's abridgement of the history of Trogus Pompeius (185i) ; collections of contempo rary accounts of the crusades and of Hungarian chronicles, entitled Gesta Dei per Francos (Hanover, 161i), and Rerum Hungaricarum scriptores varii (Frankfort, 1600) ; and Epistolae (Leyden, 1647, Fr. trans. 1668-7o). The largest collection of his ms. papers is at Berne, but others are in Paris libraries.
See H. Hagen, Jacobus Bongarsius (Bern, 1874) ; L. Anquez, Henri IV . et l'Allemagne (1887) .