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Augustin Calmet

1672–1757 · 18th century · Also known as Dom Augustin Calmet, Antoine Augustin Calmet

Augustin Calmet was a French Benedictine monk and scholar from Lorraine, abbot of Senones from 1728. He wrote a vast literal commentary on the Bible, a dictionary of the Bible and a history of Lorraine, and his treatise on apparitions and vampires of 1746 made him widely known. Voltaire and other writers visited him at Senones to use its library.

Augustin Calmet
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