Name Samuel Petit | ||
Died December 12, 1653, Nimes, France |
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Samuel Petit (Latin: Petitus) (1594 – 1653) was a French Huguenot pastor, known as a classical scholar and orientalist.
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Life
From Nîmes, the son of the pastor François Petit of Saint-Ambroix, and Noémi Ollivier, he studied oriental languages at Geneva from 1610 to 1612. He became professor of Greek at the Collège des Arts at Nîmes in 1615, and pastor there in the same year, a position he held for the rest of his life. He was principal at the Collège from 1627 to 1633.
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Family
In 1620, Petit married Catherine Cheiron. Their surviving daughter Antoinette married the physician Pierre Formi.
Petit brought up his orphaned nephew Samuel de Sorbière, whose mother Louisa was his sister.
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