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DENYS PETAU (1583-1652)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 285 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETAU (1583-1652)  , Jesuit See also:scholar, better known as DIOxYSIUS PETAVIUS, was See also:born at See also:Orleans on the 21st of See also:August 1583 . Educated at See also:Paris University, he came under the See also:influence of See also:Isaac See also:Scaliger, who directed his See also:attention towards the obscurer fathers of the See also:Church . In 1603 he was appointed to a lectureship at the university of See also:Bourges, but resigned his See also:place two years later, in See also:order to enter the Society of Jesus . For many years he was See also:professor of divinity at the See also:College de Clermont, the See also:chief Jesuit See also:establishment in Paris; there he died on the 11th of See also:December 1652 . He was one of the most brilliant scholars in a learned See also:age . Carrying on and improving the See also:chronological labours of Scaliger, he published in 1627 an See also:Opus de doctrina lemporum, which has been often reprinted . An abridgment of this See also:work, Rationarium See also:tern porum, was translated into See also:French and See also:English, and has been brought down in a See also:modern reprint to the See also:year 1849 . But See also:Petau's See also:eminence chiefly rests on . his vast, but unfinished, De theologicis dogmalibus, the first systematic See also:attempt ever made to treat the development of See also:Christian See also:doctrine from the See also:historical point of view .

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