Louis Moréri
Louis Moréri | |
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Born | 25 March 1643 |
Died | 10 July 1680 (aged 37) |
Louis Moréri (25 March 1643 – 10 July 1680) was a
Life
Moréri was born in 1643 in Bargemon, a village in the ancient province of Provence. His great-grandfather, Joseph Chatranet, a native of Dijon, had settled in Provence under King Charles IX of France and taken the name of the village of Moréri, which he acquired through marriage.[1]
Louis Moréri studied humanities in
In 1675, shortly after publishing the first edition of his encyclopedia, Moréri accompanied his bishop to Paris, where he became acquainted with Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, then the minister of foreign affairs. Three years later, he was hired to be a tutor for Pomponne's children. During this time, he worked on a second edition of his encyclopedia. In 1680, midway through the printing of the second edition, he died of tuberculosis.[3]
Legacy
Moréri's encyclopedia,
Moréri's Grand Dictionaire historique gave rise to a more famous encyclopedia, Pierre Bayle's The Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697). Bayle conceived his work as correcting and making up for deficiencies of Moréri's work.
References
- ^ Arnold Miller, "Louis Moréri's Grand Dictionnaire historique," in Notable Encyclopedias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Nine Predecessors of the Encyclopédie, ed. Frank A. Kafker (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1981), 17.
- ^ Chappuzeau worked in Lyon for a time. For his claim of priority, see J. Caullery, "Notes sur Samuel Chappuzeau," Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français 58 (1909): 145.
- ^ Miller, "Louis Moréri's Grand Dictionnaire historique," 18.
- ^ Miller, "Louis Moréri's Grand Dictionnaire historique," 48-50.
See also
- List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
- Digital Dictionnaire de Moréri at the ARTFL Project
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Louis Moréri". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.