Jean Leclerc (theologian)
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Jean Leclerc, also Johannes Clericus,(March 19, 1657 in Geneva - January 8, 1736 in Amsterdam) was a Swiss theologian and biblical scholar.
Leclerc is famous for promoting exegesis, or critical interpretation of the Bible, and was a radical of his age. He parted with Calvinism over his interpretations and left Geneva for that reason. He went to London in 1682, but moved to Amsterdam the next year due to political instability. There he taught at Remonstrant College.
Leclerc designed and compiled three encyclopedias: Bibliothèque universelle et historique (1686–1693), Bibliothèque choisie (1703–1713), and Bibliothèque ancienne et moderne (1714–1730). He had much in common with philosopher John Locke, whose works he included in his encyclopedias.
[edit] Selected works
- Editionen von Texten der Kirchenväter
- Physica sive de rebus corporeis, 1696
- Ars critica, 1697
- Harmonia evangelica, 1700
[edit] References
- Vincent, Benjamin (1877) "Leclerc, Jean (1657-1736)" A Dictionary of Biography, Past and Present: Containing the chief events in the lives of eminent persons of all ages and nations Ward, Lock, & Co., London;
- Hargreaves- Mawdsley, W.N. (1968) "Leclerc, Jean (1657-1736)" Everyman's Dictionary of European Writers Dutton, New York, ISBN 0-460-03019-1 ;
- Watson, George (ed.) (1972) "Leclerc, Jean (1657-1736)" The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, ISBN 0-521-07255-7 ;
- Lueker, Erwin L. (ed.) (1975) "Arminianism" Lutheran Cyclopedia, accessed November 7, 2006
- Yolton, John W. et al. (1991) "Leclerc, Jean (1657-1736)" The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, ISBN 0-631-15403-5 ;
- Walsh, Michael (ed.) (2001) "Leclerc, Jean (1657-1736)" Dictionary of Christian Biography Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, ISBN 0-8146-5921-7 ;
