Occupation Bibliographer | ||
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Full Name Étienne-Gabriel Peignot Born 15 May 1767 Arc-en-Barrois (Haute-Marne) Died 14 August 1849, Dijon, France | ||
Étienne-Gabriel Peignot (15 May 1767 – 14 August 1849) was an 19th-century French bibliographer.
Biography
First a lawyer in Besançon, Gabriel Peignot was a librarian and inspector of several institutions. He was a member of the Académie celtique of Paris, and of several literary societies.
Peignot was one of the most famous bibliographers of his time. Pierre Larousse in his edition of the XIXth century encyclopedia states:
Peignot was the most learned bibliographer of this century. His learning was immense. To in-depth science books, he joined informed criticism. [...] His bibliographic taste had become a passion of which old books were mainly the object. This spiritual, gay, hard-working, selfless scholar composed innumerable small writings, most printed in small numbers, and much sought by curious; they dealt with spiky or little known features.
Gabriel Peignot published a book, Le Livre des singularités (1841), under the pseudonym "G.P. Philomneste".