Antoine Guenée

Antoine Guenée (born November 23, 1717 in Étampes , † November 27, 1803 in Fontainebleau , Département Seine-et-Marne ) was a French priest and Christian apologist .

Life

He studied at the University of Paris and then entered the clergy. In 1741 he became professor of rhetoric at the College of Plessis. He retired there in 1762 , after which he was interested in studying the Bible and especially the history of the Old Testament . He was accepted into the Académie française in 1778 , for which he wrote four memoirs on the meetings of the Academy. At the beginning of the French Revolution he retired to his country estate near Fontainebleau in 1789, where he remained undisturbed due to his age and physical weakness until he died there in 1803.

Act

In addition to various apologetic writings, he published the Lettres de Quelques Juifs Portugais, Allemands et Polonais, à M. de Voltaire , Paris , 1769. This collection of letters, at the center of which Isaac de Pinto's Apologie pour la Nation Juive stands, has been reprinted and translated many times. The letters were a defense of Judaism in relation to various allegations that Voltaire made against it in the mid-18th century.

See also

• Isaac de Pinto

literature

• Gotthard German :  Guenée, Antoine. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 6, Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906, p.  105 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (ed.): Histoire de l'Académie, avec Mémoires de littérature tirez des registres de cette Académie . 1808, p. 246 (French, full text in the Google book search - short biography).