Jean-Baptiste Brutel de la Rivière (17 August 1669 – 14 August 1742) was a French Protestant minister, in exile in the Netherlands, and man of letters.
Life
He was born in
Montpellier
Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...
on 17 August 1669, into a noble family of
Languedoc
The Province of Languedoc (; , ; oc, Lengadòc ) is a former province of France.
Most of its territory is now contained in the modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of approximately ...
; he was the son of Gédéon Brutel de la Rivière. He studied first in
Zurich, and after the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes went to
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...
,
Utrecht
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and
Leiden
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. He became pastor of the
Walloon church at
Veere in 1695, moving to Rotterdam in 1702.
He died on 14 August 1742, in
Amsterdam
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.
Works
With
Moses Solanus, he translated the ''Historical Connection of the Old and New Testaments'' of
Humphrey Prideaux
Humphrey Prideaux (3 May 1648 – 1 November 1724) was a Cornish churchman and orientalist, Dean of Norwich from 1702. His sympathies inclined to Low Churchism in religion and to Whiggism in politics.
Life
The third son of Edmond Prideaux, he was ...
into French, as ''Histoire des Juifs et des peuples voisins, depuis la décadence des royaumes d'Israël & de Juda jusqu'à la mort de Jésus-Christ'' (1722). He was the choice of
Jacques Basnage to complete the edition by
Henri Basnage de Beauval Henri Basnage de Beauval (7 August 1656 – April 1710) was a French Huguenot lawyer, controversist and lexicographer, known also as a journal editor.
Life
He was born at Rouen, son of the advocate Henri Basnage de Franquesnay and brother of Jacq ...
of the ''Dictionnaire universel'' of
Antoine Furetière
Antoine Furetière (28 December 161914 May 1688) was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel ''Scarron's City Romance''. He was expelled from the Académie Française for seeking to publish his own French ...
, appearing in 1727.
[Gerald Cerny, ''Theology, Politics, and Letters at the Crossroads of European Civilization: Jacques Basnage and the Baylean Huguenot refugees in the Dutch republic'' (1987), p. 19 note 33]
Google Books
He also published ''Sermons sur divers textes de l'Ecriture Sainte'' (1746).
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1669 births
1742 deaths
French Protestants
French translators
French lexicographers
French male non-fiction writers