Dom Calmet
Antoine Calmet , Dom Augustin in religion, was a exégète and scholar French of the 18th century, known under the name of Dom Calmet , Bénédictin of the Congrégation of Saint-Valve and Saint-Hydulphe.
Biography
He was born the February 26th 1672 with Ménil-la-Horgne close to Commercy, in Lorraine, within a modest family; his/her father was marshal-shoeing. Impassioned very young person by the studies, it chooses to become Bénédictin in the Congrégation of Saint-Valve and Saint-Hydulphe. It entered like beginner at the Saint-Mansuy abbey of Toul and pronounced its wishes there the October 23rd 1689; it was then sent to follow the courses of philosophy to the abbey of Saint-Epvre of Toul and those of theology to the Abbaye of Munster.
It was charged to explain the Holy Scriptures in the abbey of Moyenmoutier and with Munster (1704), and became abbot of Saint-Léopold of Nancy (1718). He traversed the various monasteries of his kind, devouring the libraries and writing many historical compilations. In 1728, Dom Calmet was called like abbot of Senones, the capital of the Principauté of Salm. It is in the large Vosgean abbey that he worked and lived the last part of his existence, maintaining a correspondence with many scientists. It died there the October 25th 1757.
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