Étienne Chauvin (April 18, 1640 – 1725), French Protestant divine, was born in Nîmes. At the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he retired to Rotterdam where he was for some years preacher at the Walloon church; in 1695 the elector of Brandenburg appointed him pastor and professor of philosophy, and later inspector of the French college at Berlin, where he enjoyed considerable reputation as a representative of Cartesianism and as a student of physics.

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  • Étienne Chauvin, protestant français né à Nîmes. À la révocation de l'Édit de Nantes, il se retira à Rotterdam où il fut pendant quelques années prêcheur à l'Église wallonne ; en 1695 l'électorat de Brandenburg le nomma pasteur et professeur de philosophie, et plus tard inspecteur de l'Université française à Berlin, où il bénéficia d'une réputation considérable en tant que représentant du cartésianisme et comme un étudiant de physique. Son œuvre principale est un laborieux Lexicon Rationale, sive Thesaurus Philosophicus (Rotterdam, 1692; édition nouvelle et enrichie, Leeuwarden, 1713). Il écrivit aussi Theses de Cognitione Dei, et commença le Nouveau Journal des Savants.
  • Étienne Chauvin (April 18, 1640 – 1725), French Protestant divine, was born in Nîmes. At the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he retired to Rotterdam where he was for some years preacher at the Walloon church; in 1695 the elector of Brandenburg appointed him pastor and professor of philosophy, and later inspector of the French college at Berlin, where he enjoyed considerable reputation as a representative of Cartesianism and as a student of physics. His principal work is a laborious Lexicon Rationale, sive Thesaurus Philosophicus (Rotterdam, 1692; new and enlarged edition, Leeuwarden, 1713). He also wrote Theses de Cognitione Dei (1662), and started the Nouveau Journal des Savants (1694–1698).
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  • Étienne Chauvin, protestant français né à Nîmes. À la révocation de l'Édit de Nantes, il se retira à Rotterdam où il fut pendant quelques années prêcheur à l'Église wallonne ; en 1695 l'électorat de Brandenburg le nomma pasteur et professeur de philosophie, et plus tard inspecteur de l'Université française à Berlin, où il bénéficia d'une réputation considérable en tant que représentant du cartésianisme et comme un étudiant de physique.
  • Étienne Chauvin (April 18, 1640 – 1725), French Protestant divine, was born in Nîmes. At the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he retired to Rotterdam where he was for some years preacher at the Walloon church; in 1695 the elector of Brandenburg appointed him pastor and professor of philosophy, and later inspector of the French college at Berlin, where he enjoyed considerable reputation as a representative of Cartesianism and as a student of physics.
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