Samuel Petit Explained
Samuel Petit (Latin: Petitus) (1594 – 1653) was a French Huguenot pastor, known as a classical scholar and orientalist.[1]
Life
From Nîmes, the son of the pastor François Petit of Saint-Ambroix, and Noémi Ollivier, he studied oriental languages at Geneva from 1610 to 1612. He became professor of Greek at the Collège des Arts at Nîmes in 1615, and pastor there in the same year, a position he held for the rest of his life. He was principal at the Collège from 1627 to 1633.[2]
Works
- Miscellaneorum libri novem (1630). This work includes Petit's speculation on organising the dialogues of Plato into sets of four.[3] It also included his attempted reconstruction of the Phoenician language.[4]
- Eclogae chronologicae (1632)
- Variarum lectionum libri IV (1633); reprinted in Critici Sacri (1698 edition).[5]
- Leges atticae (1635)[5]
- Observationum libri III (1642)[5]
- Diatribi de jure (1649)[5]
- Traité concernant la réunion de Chrétiens (1670).[5]
Family
In 1620, Petit married Catherine Cheiron. Their surviving daughter Antoinette married the physician Pierre Formi.[6]
Petit brought up his orphaned nephew Samuel de Sorbière, whose mother Louisa was his sister.[7] [8]
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Principes de politique applicables à tous les gouvernements représentatifs: (Texte de 1806). 3 September 2012. 27 January 2011. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-11-023447-3. 932.
- Book: Suzanne Stelling-Michaud. Le livre du Recteur de l'Académie de Genève (1559-1878). 3 September 2012. 1966. Librairie Droz. 978-2-600-03196-7. 148. fr.
- Book: Gerald Alan Press. Who Speaks for Plato?: Studies in Platonic Anonymity. 3 September 2012. 2000. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-8476-9219-4. 192 note 29.
- Book: Zur Shalev. Sacred Words and Worlds: Geography, Religion, and Scholarship, 1550-1700. 3 September 2012. 14 October 2011. BRILL. 978-90-04-20935-0. 183 note 25.
- Book: Emile Haag. La France protestante. 3 September 2012. 1858. rue St Dominique d' enfer. 205.
- Book: Abel Boyer. L'académie protestante de Nimes et Samuel Petit: thèses. 3 September 2012. 1871. J. Vidallet. 26.
- Book: Cornelis W. Schoneveld. Intertraffic of the Mind: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Translation with a Checklist of Books Translated from English Into Dutch, 1600-1700. 3 September 2012. 1983. Brill Archive. 978-90-04-06942-8. 29.
- Book: The London encyclopaedia: or Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge. 3 September 2012. 1829. 623.
