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See also:CALMET, See also:ANTOINE AUGUSTIN (1672–1757) , See also:French See also:Benedictine, was See also:born at Mesnil-la-Horgne on the 26th of See also:February 1672. At the See also:age of seventeen he joined the Benedictine See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, and in 1698 was appointed to See also:teach See also:theology and See also:philosophy at the See also:abbey of Moyen-Moutier. He was successively See also:prior at See also:Lay, See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot at See also:Nancy and of See also:Senones in See also:Lorraine. He died in See also:Paris on the 25th of See also:October 1757. The erudition of Calmet's exegetical writings won him a reputation that was not confined to the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, but they have failed to stand the test of See also:modern scholarship. The most noteworthy are :—Commentaire de la See also:Bible (Paris, 23 vols.,17o7–1716), and Dictionnaire historique, geographique, critique, chronologique et litteral de la Bible (Paris, 2 vols., 1720). These and numerous other See also:works and See also:editions of the Bible are known only to students, but as a See also:pioneer in a See also:branch of Biblical study which received a wide development in the 19th See also:century, Calmet is worthy of remembrance. As a See also:historical writer he is best known by his Histoire ecclesiastique et civile de la Lorraine (Nancy, 1728), founded on See also:original See also:research and various useful works on Lorraine, of which a full See also:list is given In Vigouroux's Dictionnaire de la Bible.
See A. Digot, See also:Notice biographique et littiraire sur Dom Augustin Calmet (Nancy, 186o).
End of Article: CALMET, ANTOINE AUGUSTIN (1672–1757)
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