Pierre Daniel Huet
Pierre Daniel Huet (Latin Huetius; * February 8, 1630 in Caen, † January 26, 1721 in Paris) was a French clergyman and scholar, Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and later also of Avranches.
Life
Huet was born in 1630 in Caen and teaches at the Jesuit high school. He also received lessons from the Protestant pastor Samuel Bochart. At the age of 20 he was recognized as one of the most promising scholars of his time. 1651, he went to Paris where he became friends with Gabriel Naudé. The following year, Bochart was invited by Queen Christina of Sweden to her court in Stockholm. Huet accompanied his friend on this trip. This trip, in which he met Leiden, Amsterdam and Copenhagen as well as Stockholm, led in the main to explore Sweden's Royal Library, where Huet found some fragments of Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. This gave him the idea to edit Origen, a task which he completed in 1668. It finally came to a dispute with Bochart, who accused him of having suppressed a line of Origen in the eucharistic controversy.
In Paris he came into close contact with Jean Chapelain. During the famous Querelle des Anciens et Modernes Huet took against Charles Perrault and Jean Desmarets de Saint -Sorlin party for the Anciens. Among his friends during this period were Jean Valentin Conrart and Pellisson. His love of mathematics led him to studies of astronomy. His attention was next on anatomy. Since he was short-sighted, he went into his study mainly on the question of the vision and the formation of the eyes. In the course of his studies he conducted more than 800 decompositions of eyes. Thereafter, he focused on the chemistry and also wrote a Latin poem about salt. During this time he was a regular visitor in the salons of Madeleine de Scudéry and artist studios. His scientific studies did not interfere with his original studies but. He also learned Syriac and Arabic at the Jesuit Adrien Parvilliers. He also wrote a story called Diane de Castro and delivered with his Traitté de l' origine of the novel the first story of the novel - the work which can now be regarded as a pioneer of modern literary history. 1670 he was appointed assistant teacher of the Dauphin and published with the support of Anne Lefèvre, who later became Madame Dacier, the famous Delphic classic. The series included a comprehensive edition of the Latin classics in over 60 issues and each work was accompanied by a Latin comment.
Huet was appointed in 1674 to the Académie française. He was in 1679 one of his greatest works, the demonstrations evangelica out. 1678 made him the king to the abbot of Aulnay. There he wrote his Questiones Aletuanae (Caen, 1690), his Censura Philosophiae Cartesianae (Paris, 1689), his Nouveau mémoire pour servir a l' histoire du Cartesianisme (1692 ), and his discussion with Nicolas Boileau on the sublime. In 1685 he became bishop of Soissons, but after he waited for his appointment four years, he took over the diocese of Avranches instead. He gave up the office in his diocese and took it considers to be easier to hand -to-do item of the Abbot of Fontenay, but there he was harassed with incessant processes. When the time was ripe, he sat down in the Rue Saint -Antoine in Paris to rest, where he died in 1721. His extensive library and manuscripts were, after he had bequeathed to the Jesuits, acquired by the King for the royal library.
Was published posthumously in the Traité Philosophique de la faiblesse de l'esprit humain (Amsterdam, 1723). His autobiography, found in his de rebus ad eum Commentarius pertinentibus, has been translated into English and French.