BADE, JOSSE

(Jodocus Badius Ascensius, ca. 1461-1535)

Influential editor and publisher, born in Flanders but settled in Paris from 1499 and active as a printer from 1503. He published several of the earlier writings of thehumanist Erasmusas well as the works of other humanists and majorclassicalauthors and is usually regarded as a humanistic publisher. In reality, however, he was official printer to the conservativeUniversityof Paris from 1507; and while he did produce many humanistic texts, he just as gladly issued works of traditionalscholasticlearning and attacks by conservative theologians on Erasmus,Lefèvre d'Etaples, and other humanists.