Product Code Database
David Blondel (1591 – 6 April 1655) was a French Protestant clergyman, historian and classical scholar.
In 1650 he succeeded GJ Vossius in the professorship of history at the university of Amsterdam. His students included Francis Turretin, and Johann Georg Graevius.
...the real work of discrediting and disposing of the Oracula Sibyllina, Chaldean Oracles, and Orphic hymns, ... seemingly only began, as Diderot noted in 1751, in the 1650s when the Huguenot scholar David Blondel ... published his treatise on the Oracula in Amsterdam. Enlightenment Contested (2006), .
In his dissertation on Pope Joan (1647), Familier Eclaircissement de la Question, Si une femme a esté assise au Siege Papal de Rome entre Leon IV & Benoist III he came to the conclusion, now generally accepted, that the story is a myth. Edward Gibbon wrote this in The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire:
She was annihilated by two learned protestants, Blondel and Pierre Bayle ...
Indignation against him on account of this book came from Protestant polemicists. The Female Pope Chapter 6
His 1628 book against Turrianus Pseudo-Isidorus et Turrianus vapulantes conclusively demonstrated that the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals were a very learned forgery. This work was praised by Voltaire, writing in his Dictionnaire Philosophique.[3], English translation. Blondel tracked down sources actually used by the Pseudo-Isidore. Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals and Other Forgeries Later scholarship has sustained his conclusions.
In a work Genealogiae Francicae plenior assertio. etc. written as he was going blind, he struck back against Jean-Jacques Chifflet, who had written in favour of the Spanish royal family's genealogical claims, over those of the French kings. In 1655 he produced an anthology of extracts arguing for Protestant eirenicism. Actes authentiques des eglises reformées de France, Germanie, Grande Bretaigne, Pologne,Hongrie, Païs Bas, &c. touchant la paix & charité fraternelle, Amsterdam 1655
|
|
