Louis Thomassin
Louis Thomassin (28 August1619 at Aix-en-Provence–24 December1695 in Paris) was a French theologian and Oratorian.
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Thomassin was one of the most learned men of his time, "Vir stupendae plane eruditionis", as Hugo von Hurter says, in his Nomenclator literarius recentioris II (Innsbruck, 1893), 410.
Works
His chief works are:
- "Ancienne et nouvelle discipline de l'église touchant les bénéfices et les bénéficiers" 93 vols. in fol., Paris, 1678-79), which passed through several French and Latin editions and several abridgments;
- "Dogmatum theologicorum ... de Incarnatione, de Dei proprietatibus ... etc." (3 vols. in fol., Paris, 1680-89), likewise re-edited several times (the t
The last-named two posthumous works were published by P. Bordes, who wrote a life of Thomassin at the beginning of the "Glossarium".
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