Charles-François Dupuis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles-François Dupuis

French academic

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1742

Place of Birth: Trie-Château, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 29-Sep-1809

Profession: astronomer, lawyer, politician, professor, historian, philosopher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Charles François Dupuis (26 October 1742 – 29 September 1809) was a French savant, a professor (from 1766) of rhetoric at the Collège de Lisieux, Paris, who studied for the law in his spare time and was received as avocat in 1770.
He also ventured into the field of mathematics and served on the committee that developed the French Republican Calendar. Along with Constantin François Chassebœuf de Volney (1757–1820) Dupuis was known for developing the Christ myth theory, which argued that Christianity was an amalgamation of various ancient mythologies and that Jesus was a mythical character.