Antoine d'Aquin

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Antoine d'Aquin

Antoine d'Aquin (also Daquin ) (* 1629 in Paris ; † May 17, 1696 in Vichy ) was a French doctor.

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Antoine d'Aquins grandfather Mordekhaï Crescas (1576–1650) was a rabbi in Carpentras . Because he was inclined to Christianity, he had to leave Carpentras in 1610. In Aquino in the Kingdom of Naples he was baptized as a Christian and from then on called himself Philippe d'Aquin. In Paris he was appointed Professor of Hebrew Studies at the Collège de France in 1610 by Louis XIII . Together with Jean Morin (1591–1659, member of the oratorio ), Godefroy Hermant (1617–1690, Jansenist clergyman from Beauvais ) and three Maronites from Lebanon , he compiled the Paris Polyglot Bible (1629–1645).

Antoine d'Aquin studied medicine in Montpellier, where he received his medical doctorate in 1648. Returning to Paris in 1656 he married the niece of the wife of Antoine Vallot (1594–1671), who was Louis XIV's first doctor . Through Vallot's intercession he became Queen Marie Therese's first doctor in 1667 . The ailing Vallot was often represented by d'Aquin for the king. After Vallot's death, d'Aquin was initially provisional, from 1672 full-time with the protection of Madame de Montespan , the king's first doctor. Under the influence of Madame de Maintenon , he fell out of favor. In November 1693 he was disgraced and replaced by his rival Guy-Crescent Fagon .

Works

  • Antoine Vallot (1594-1671), Antoine d'Aquin, Guy-Crescent Fagon . - Journal de santé du roi Louis XIV de l'année 1647 à l'année 1711, avec introduction, notes, réflexions critiques et pièces justificatives par JA Le Roi - Paris - Auguste Durand, éditeur - 1862 (digitized version)

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SURNAME d'Aquin, Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aquin, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1696
Place of death Vichy