Étienne Chauvin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French protestant divine
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Place of Birth: Nîmes, Occitania, France
About Étienne Chauvin
- Étienne Chauvin (18 April 1640 – 6 April 1725), French Protestant divine, was born in Nîmes.
- At the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he retired to Rotterdam where he was for some years preacher at the Walloon church; in 1695 the elector of Brandenburg appointed him pastor and professor of philosophy, and later inspector of the French college at Berlin, where he enjoyed considerable reputation as a representative of Cartesianism and as a student of physics.
- His principal work is a laborious Lexicon Rationale, sive Thesaurus Philosophicus (Rotterdam, 1692; new and enlarged edition, Leeuwarden, 1713).
- He also wrote Theses de Cognitione Dei (1662), and started the Nouveau Journal des Savants (1694–1698).
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