Pierre Guarin (1678 – 29 December 1729) was a French
Hebraist
A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, a ...
. He was born at Le Tronquay (Normandy) in 1678. He entered the order of the
Benedictines of St. Maur on 21 October 1696, became subsequently professor of Greek and Hebrew, and died librarian of the
abbey of St. Germain des Pros on 29 December 1729.
He had a lively literary controversy with
canon Masclef, and wrote ''Grammatica Hebraica et Chal-deice,'' etc. (Paris, 1724 8, 2 vols. 4to) '': — Lexicon Hebra-icum et Chaldaeobiblicum'' (Par. 1746, 2 vols. 4to). Guapin only completed this dictionary to ''Mere'' inclusively; the following letters were the work of other Benedictines. See Le Cerf, ''Bibl. Hist. et crit. des Auteurs de la Cony. de St. Maur;'' Hoefer, ''Nouv. Biog. Genesis 22:''318.
1678 births
1729 deaths
French librarians
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