Joseph Vaissète
Dom Joseph Vaissète , also Jean Joseph de Vaissète , (born May 4, 1685 in Gaillac , † April 10, 1756 in the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés , Paris) was a French Benedictine monk of the Congrégation de Saint-Maur .
Life
Joseph Vaissète was the son of Jean Géraud Vaissète († 1710), who held the office of Procureur du Roi in the Albigeois , and Marie de Bertoule de Passemar († 1726). In 1707 he completed his training as a Bachelier des droits civils et canon, which he followed in 1709 with the licentiate . In 1710 he took over the office of Procureur du Roi as the successor to his late father. In the same year he entered the Benedictine Prieré Notre-Dame de la Daurade in Toulouse , the following year he gave up the office of Procureurs. In 1712 his novitiate ended and he took his vows.
As early as 1713, due to his interest in historical research, he was brought to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he worked with Claude Devic on the Histoire générale de Languedoc , the first volume of which appeared in 1730, the second in 1733. From 1734, after the Tod Devics, he published the remaining three volumes (1737, 1742 and 1746) alone. In 1749 a short version of the same work followed, "Abrège de l'Histoire de Languedoc".
Works
- Origine de la monarchie française
- Histoire générale de Languedoc, 5th volumes (1730–1746)
- Abrège de l'Histoire générale de Languedoc, 6 volumes (1749)
- Géographie Universelle, historique, ecclésiastique et civile, 4 volumes (1755)
literature
- Les pères Richard et Giraud: Bibliothèque Sacrée ou Dictionnaire Universel, dogmatique, canonique, géographique ..., Paris 1825, pp. 444/45
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vaissète, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vaissète, Jean Joseph de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Benedictine monk and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1685 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gaillac |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1756 |
| Place of death | Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey , Paris |