Louis Coulon (geographer)

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Abbé Louis Coulon (* 1605 in Poitiers ; † 1664 ) was a French geographer and historian .

Life

He was with the Jesuits from 1620 to 1640 and then became a secular clergyman (Abbé) in order to devote himself entirely to history and geography. Coulon is the author of many books and translators. The first known geological map was previously attributed to him, published in his book on the history of the rivers of France in 1644, of which the French geological historian François Ellenberger could find no trace (among other things, he examined four copies of the book in Paris) and therefore it referred to as a phantom . Claims of the map's existence seem to go back to Armand Dufrénoy (1835). Coulon's book on the rivers of France is influenced by the Descriptio Fluminum Galliae by Papire Masson of 1618 and by the travelogues of France by Abraham Göllnitz .

Fonts

  • Les rivières de France, ou Description geographique et historique du cours et débordement des fleuves, rivières, fontaines, lacs et estangs qui arrousent les provinces du royaume, 2 volumes, Paris: Gervais Clousier 1644
  • Lexicon homericum, Paris, 1643
  • Harmony of the IV Evangelist sur la passion de notre Seigneur, 1645
  • Histoire des Juifs, Paris, 3 volumes 1656
  • Histoire des vies des Papes, 1656 (reprinted several times)

Among other things, he translated the Ulysse français by Abraham Göllnitz (1643), the Histoire du royaume de la Chine by the Portuguese Jesuit Álvaro Semedo (1645, from Italian), the Histoire de la vie des papes (1656) by Bartolomeo Platina and his successors , with his own additions from Coulon to Innocent X., and a new edition of the Tresor de l´histoire de France by Gilles Corrozet (1510–1568) (published 1645, originally from 1583).

As a Jesuit, he also published a Commentary on Homer for school use.

literature

  • Entry in Supplement de Grand Dictionaire Historique, Genealogique, Geographique etc. de M. Louis Moreri, Volume 1, Paris 1735

References and comments

  1. ^ François Ellenberger, Les premiers cartes geologiques en France 1982
  2. ↑ Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, Volume 6, 1835, p. 249
  3. ↑ Antiquariat Michel Bouvier, catalog no. 66, pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.slam-livre.fr  
personal data
SURNAME Coulon, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French geographer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH Poitiers
DATE OF DEATH 1664