Jean Liebault

Jean Liébault (1535 – 21 June 1596) was a doctor and agronomist, born in Dijon.

He married Nicole Estienne, who published several writings about marriage, in which she condemned domestic violence and a large age difference between spouses.^[1] His father-in-law was Charles Estienne, author of the Praedieum rusticum.^[2] Liébault substantially altered and extended Estienne's book, resulting in a French text La Maison Rustique (first translated into English by Richard Surflet as "The Countrey Farme" in 1600,^[3] with an expanded edition published in 1616).^[4] He translated or authored the medical textbook Trois Livres appartenans aux infirmitez et maladies des femmes.^[5]

Bibliography

• Louis-Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes avec la collaboration de plus de 300 savants et littérateurs français ou étrangers, 2e édition, 1843-1865 [détail édition]
• Antonio Saltini, Storia delle scienze agrarie, t.I Dalle origini al Rinascimento, Edagricole, Bologna 1984, pp. 257–269