Maur Dantine

Maur Dantine (* 1. April 1688 in Gonrieux ; † 3. November 1746 in the Monastery of the Blancs-Manteaux in Paris) was a Belgian Benedictine of Maurists -Kongregation and chronicler .

Like many members of his congregation, he was one of the so-called appellants who did not accept the papal bull Unigenitus Dei filius (1713) , but appealed to a general council.

Works

Dantine's main merit is his work on chronology; it is based on the carefully worked out plan that he wrote for the large publication " L'Art de verifier les dates historiques, des chartes, des chroniques et autres monuments, depuis la naissance de J.-C.". had designed, regarded as one of the founders of this branch of history. He did most of the preparatory work for this publication, creating more accurate chronological tables and introducing a better method for calculating historical data. Due to illness he could not continue his work and had to leave the completion to other members of his order. His successor was Charles Clémencet .

He also devoted himself to linguistics and published a translation of it with commentary on the psalms under the title: "Les psaumes traduits sur l'hébreu avec des notes". This work attracted so much attention that a second edition became necessary in the same year and a third the following year.

In collaboration with Dom Carpentier, he prepared a new edition of the dictionary originally published by Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange in 1678. It was later continued by the masons with the publisher Dom Guesnié, followed by Nicolas Toustain and Louis le Pelletier . The edition by Dantine and Carpentier, half as extensive as the Du Canges, appeared in six volumes in Paris from 1733–1736 under the title: "Glossarium ad scriptores mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, editio locupletior operâ et studio monachorum OSB"

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• Charles Hebermann (Ed.), Maurus Dantine . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1913.