Louis Moréri
Louis Moréri , born with Bargemon the March 25th 1643 and died in Paris the July 10th 1680, is a Encyclopédiste French.
Its Encyclopedia, the Large historical Dictionary, or mixes curious about the crowned history and layman , was the first time published at Lyon in 1674 in a volume. It contains mainly historical and biographical articles. Moréri dedicated it to Gaillard of Longjumeau, bishop of Apt, where it was named Aumônier. The work of Moréri was modified a certain number of times by others after its death, and a total of twenty editions (or perhaps more) were published between 1674 and 1759; the latter, published in Paris, was of ten volumes.
The importance of Moréri holds so that it inaugurated a series of similar dictionaries, written in vulgar language and not in Latin. Its work was translated into German, English, Dutch, Spanish and Italian.
Pierre Bayle conceived his historical and critical Dictionnaire , published as of 1696, in reaction in particular to that of Moréri. Bayle saw there a ouvragre truffle of errors, badly founded ideas, unceasingly repeated facts and ever checked, and which however referred at the time.
Moréri made its humanities with Draguignan then its Rhétorique among Jesuits of Aix-en-Provence before studying theology and being ordered priest with Lyon.
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- Portrait (engraving) (University of Liege)
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