BUDE (BUDAEUS), GUILLAUME (1467-1540), French scholar, was born at Paris. The work which gained him greatest reputation was his De Asse et Partibus (1514), a treatise on ancient coins and measures. He was held in high esteem by Francis I., who was persuaded by him, and by Jean du Bellay, bishop of Narbonne, to found the Collegium Trilingue, after wards the College de France, and the library at Fontainebleau, which was removed to Paris and was the origin of the Biblio theque Nationale. He also induced Francis to refrain from pro hibiting printing in France, which had been advised by the Sor bonne in 1533. He was sent by Louis XII. to Rome as am bassador to Leo X., and in 1522 was appointed maitre des requetes and was several times prevot des marchands.
Bude was also the author of Annotationes in XXIV. libros Pandectarum (1508), which had a great influence on the study of Roman law, and of Commentarii linguae Graecae (1529), an extensive collection of lexicographical notes, which contributed greatly to the study of Greek literature in France. He corre sponded with the most learned men of his time, amongst them Erasmus and Thomas More. He was suspected of leanings towards Calvinism. Other works of his are De Philologia (153o), De Tran situ Hellenismi ad Christianismum (1534) and De l'Institution du Prince (pub. See Le Roy, Vita G. Budaei (1540) ; Rebitte, G. Bude, restaurateur des etudes grecques en France (1846) ; E. de Bude, Vie de G. Bude (1884) , who refutes the idea of his ancestor's Protestant views ; D'Hozier, La Maison de Bude; L. Delaruelle, Etudes sur l'humanisme francais (1907) ; Repertoire analytique et chronologique de la corres pondance de G. Bude (1997) ; J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship (1908) , vol. ii. pp. 170-173, with bibliography ; J. Plattard, Guillaume Bude (1923).