Jean François Foppens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean François Foppens

Flemish historian

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1689

Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 16-Jul-1761

Profession: historian, Catholic priest, biographer, theologian, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jean François Foppens, sometimes Latinized Johannes Franciscus Foppens (1689–1761), was a Belgian ecclesiastical historian, and literary biographer and bibliographer.
He is best known for his Bibliotheca belgica, sive virorum in Belgio vita scriptisque illustrium catalogus (2 vols., Brussels, 1739), a catalogue of Belgian authors and their works.