Jean-Baptiste Brutel de la Rivière (17 August 1669 – 14 August 1742) was a French Protestant minister, in exile in the Netherlands, and man of letters.

Life

He was born in

Montpellier Montpellier (; ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of ...

on 17 August 1669, into a noble family of

Languedoc The Province of Languedoc (, , ; ) is a former province of France. Most of its territory is now contained in the modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of approximately . History ...

; he was the son of Gédéon Brutel de la Rivière. He studied first in

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, and after the

Revocation of the Edict of Nantes The Edict of Fontainebleau (18 October 1685, published 22 October 1685) was an edict issued by French King Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Nantes (1598) had granted Huguenots the right to pra ...

went to

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

Utrecht Utrecht ( ; ; ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht. The ...

and

Leiden Leiden ( ; ; in English language, English and Archaism, archaic Dutch language, Dutch also Leyden) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Nethe ...

. He became pastor of the Walloon church at

Veere Veere (; ) is a municipality with a population of 22,000 and a town with a population of 1,500 in the southwestern Netherlands, in the region of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland. History The name ''Veere'' means "ferry": Wolfert Van Bors ...

in 1695, moving to Rotterdam in 1702. He died on 14 August 1742, in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

Works

With Moses Solanus, he translated the ''Historical Connection of the Old and New Testaments'' of

Humphrey Prideaux Humphrey Prideaux (3 May 1648 – 1 November 1724) was a Cornish churchman and orientalist, Dean of Norwich from 1702. His sympathies inclined to Low Churchism in religion and to Whiggism in politics. Life The third son of Edmond Prideaux, he ...

into French, as ''Histoire des Juifs et des peuples voisins, depuis la décadence des royaumes d'Israël & de Juda jusqu'à la mort de Jésus-Christ'' (1722). He was the choice of

Jacques Basnage Jacques Basnage De Beauval (8 August 165322 December 1723) was a celebrated French Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs. He wrote a ''History of the Reformed Churches'' and on ''Jewish Antiquities''. Biography Jacques ...

to complete the edition by

Henri Basnage de Beauval Henri Basnage de Beauval (7 August 1656 – April 1710) was a French Huguenot lawyer, controversist and lexicographer, known also as a journal editor. Life He was born at Rouen, son of the advocate Henri Basnage de Franquesnay and brother of Jacqu ...

of the ''

Dictionnaire universel The ''Dictionnaire universel, contenant generalement tous les mots françois'' (originally ''Dictionaire universel'') was a dictionary and encyclopedia compiled by Antoine Furetière and published posthumously in 1690. Unlike the rival dictionary o ...

'' of

Antoine Furetière Antoine Furetière (28 December 161914 May 1688) was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel ''Scarron's City Romance'', and also his famous Dictionnaire universel . He was expelled from the Académie F ...

, appearing in 1727.Gerald Cerny, ''Theology, Politics, and Letters at the Crossroads of European Civilization: Jacques Basnage and the Baylean Huguenot refugees in the Dutch republic'' (1987), p. 19 note 33
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He also published ''Sermons sur divers textes de l'Ecriture Sainte'' (1746).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brutel de la Riviere, Jean-Baptiste 1669 births 1742 deaths 18th-century French translators 18th-century lexicographers French Protestants French lexicographers French male non-fiction writers French expatriates in the Dutch Republic