Jean Hardouin
Jean Hardouin (born in 1646 in Quimper and died on 3 September 1729 ) is an erudite French classical texts.
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He acquired his taste for literature in the library of his father and when he was sixteen, he obtained admission into the Society of Jesuits. In Paris, where he went to study theology , he eventually became librarian of the College Louis-le-Grand in 1683. He died there September 3, 1729.
His first published work was an edition of Themistius (1684), which contained no fewer than thirteen new speech. On the advice of Jean Garnier (1612-1681), he took charge of editing the Natural History of Pliny for a collection "for the use of the Dolphin ", a task he completed in five years. His attention had turned to the numismatics as a science auxiliary to his great editing work, he published several books in this field, which suffer, however, like almost everything he did, a willingness to interpret things differently. Just mention his Nummi and antiques populorum urbium ILLUSTRATI (1684), Antirrheticus of Nummi and ancient coloniarum municipiorum (1689), and Chronologia Veteris Testamenti ad vulgatam versionem accurate and nummi illustrata (1696).
Ideas paradoxical
The ecclesiastical authorities charged him to oversee the Conciliorum collectio regia maxima (1715), but he was accused of having removed important papers and documents have inserted surreptitiously apocryphal also, by order of the Parliament of Paris (then in conflict with Jesuits), the publication of the work she was suspended. It's still a worthy collection, often cited by scholars.
Hardouin maintained that all councils allegedly took place before that of Trent were fictitious. But it is as the first scholar to have supported a series of paradoxical theories we remember most about him. The most remarkable, which is found in its antiques Chronologiae ex nummi restitutae (1696) and his Prolegomena ad Censurami veterum Scriptorum, wanted to prove that, with the exception of works of Homer , from Herodotus and Cicero , the ' Natural History of Pliny, the Georgics of Virgil , and Satires and Epistles of Horace , all the classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome were false, made by monks in the thirteenth century , under the direction of some Archontius Severus. He denied the authenticity of most works of art, coins and ancient inscriptions, and ensured that the New Testament was originally written in Latin.
According to historian Henri Marrou Irenaeus , but considered pseudoscientific.
References
See A. Debacker Library Writer's Society of Jesus (1853).
Sources
- (In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Jean Hardouin (see the list of authors )
- This article is partially or entirely from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 edition (public domain), Article Jean Hardouin
Notes
- From the historical knowledge Ed. du Seuil, coll. Points History, 1975. p. 130-139 [1]
- Fomenko and "Recent"
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