Cosme de Villiers
Cosme de Villiers de Saint Étienne | |
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Personal | |
Born | 1683 Saint-Denis, France |
Died | 1758 (aged 74–75) Orléans, France |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Notable work(s) | Bibliotheca carmelitana (1752) |
Order | Carmelite |
Senior posting | |
Post | Orléans |
Cosme de Villiers de Saint Étienne (1683–1758) was a French Carmelite bibliographer.
Life[]
Born in Saint-Denis, near Paris, he joined the Carmelite order and from 1709 to 1727 was lecturer in philosophy or theology in various convents of the order, particularly Nantes, Hennebont, and Saint-Pol-de-Léon. In 1727, Villiers began to preach.[1] He later became a preacher in Orléans, where he died.
Works[]
He was the author of the Bibliotheca carmelitana (2 vols, Orleans, 1752).
References[]
- ^ "Villiers, Cosme De from the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia". McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia Online. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
Sources[]
- Dictionnaire historique et bibliographique, vol. 2 (Paris, 1822), 64.
- Dictionnaire historique; ou, Biographie universelle classique, vol. 6 (Paris, 1829), 3239.
Categories:
- 1683 births
- 1758 deaths
- 18th-century French writers
- 18th-century French male writers
- Carmelites
- French bibliographers
- Historians of monasticism
- People from Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis
- French non-fiction writer stubs