Jacques Georges Chauffepié

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Died 1786

Jacques-Georges Chauffepié (9 November 1702, Leeuwarden – 5 July 1786, Amsterdam) was an 18th-century French biographer and calvinist minister and preacher.

Publications

1736: Lettres sur divers sujets importants de religion, in-12°.

1756: Sermons destinés à prouver la vérité de la religion chrétienne par l'état du peuple juif, Amsterdam, 1756, in-8°.

1760: Tableau des vertus chrétiennes, Amsterdam, in-8°, translated from the English of Basket, ecclesiastic in the County of Worcester.

1738 and 1752: Histoire du monde, sacrée et profane, by Samuel Shuckford, translated from English, Leyden, 5 vol. in-i2. Chauffepié produced only the second volume; the 1st had been by J.-P. Bernard, the 5th was by Toussaint.

1754: Vie de Pope (à la tête des Œuvres diverses by this author, translated from English by different authors, collected by Élie de Joncourt and printed in Amsterdam 1754, 7 vol. in-12 ; 1767, 8 vol. in-12).

1770–1792: Histoire universelle depuis le commencement du monde, translated from English, 46 vol. in-4°. This work, composed in England by a company of men of letters, was translated into French by two societies of letters. One of these translations is in-8°; the one to which contributed Chauffepié is in-4°; he translated vol. 15 to 24.

1750–1756: Nouveau Dictionnaire historique et critique, pour servir de supplément ou de continuation, au Dictionnaire historique et critique de M. Pierre Bayle, Amsterdam, 4 vol. in-fol. The project of a supplement to the dictionary of Bayle was conceived at the death of the philosopher, but was not executed. After some English people of letters gave an English translation of the book by Bayle in 40 vol, with considerable additions, it was proposed to Chauffepié to translate into French the additions made in England. These additions consisted either in addition to articles bby Bayle, either new articles, He devoted many years to this work, and made himself new additions and new articles. Out of nearly fourteen hundred items found in his dictionary, more than six hundred, almost all English, are translated without additions from Chauffepié; about two hundred and eighty are reworked by him, some five hundred items are entirely his. Chauffepié has neither the piquancy nor cynicism of Bayle. He meets the character of Minister which he was invested with. He sometimes straightens English authors, and shows great erudition. Only in a work of this scope can we afford the explanatory notes of the text, or dissertations on some curious history or literature points.

1787: Sermons sur divers textes, Amsterdam, 5 vol. in-8°, They were published by Samuel Chauffepié, Jacques George's nephew, who, in the praise he made of his uncle, mentions a few other minor works.

References

Jacques-Georges Chauffepié Wikipedia

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