Pierre Guarin
French Hebraist
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Pierre Guarin (1678 – 29 December 1729) was a French Hebraist. He was born at Le Tronquay, Province of Normandy, in 1678. He entered the order of the Benedictines of St. Maur on 21 October 1696, became subsequently professor of Greek and Hebrew, and died librarian of the abbey of St. Germain des Pros on 29 December 1729.
(aged 50–51)He had a lively literary controversy with canon François Masclef, and wrote Grammatica Hebraica et Chal-deice, etc. (Paris, 1724 8, 2 vols. 4to) : — Lexicon Hebra-icum et Chaldaeobiblicum (Par. 1746, 2 vols. 4to). Guapin only completed this dictionary to Mere inclusively; the following letters were the work of other Benedictines.
References
- Le Cerf de la Vieville, Jean Philippe (1726). Biblioteque historique et critique des auteurs de la congregation de st. Maur. ... Par d. Filipe Le Cerf de la Vieville, . Alessandrina Library. A La Haye : chez Pierre Gosse. pp. 176–177.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - Hoefer, M. (Jean Chrétien Ferdinand); Firmin-Didot (Firm). firm, publishers (1852). Nouvelle biographie universelle depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'a nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources a consulter;. Boston Public Library. Paris : Firmin Didot fréres... pp. 318–319.
This article incorporates public domain material from McClintock, John; Strong, James (1867–1887). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper and Brothers.
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