Vincent Thuillier

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Vincent Thuillier (1685–1736) was a French Maurist scholar, known as an author, editor and translator.

Life

Thuillier was born at Coucy. He entered the Congregation of Saint Maur in 1703, and for most of his life taught theology at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.[1]

The papal bull Unigenitus of 1713, aimed at Jansenism, found Thuillier initially an opponent.[1] Having changed his position, he wrote two open letters supporting Unigenitus. The bull was a contentious matter within the Maurists, and Thuillier's arguments, against those appealing against the bull, were attacked by Edme Perreau (Edmond Perrault).[2]

Thuillier used the humanist name Thuillerius. He exchanged letters with Richard Bentley in Cambridge.[3][4] John Walker from 1719 travelled to France, as Bentley's collaborator in a project to collate New Testament manuscripts, and Thuillier was one of the Benedictine scholars who assisted him.[5]

Works

  • Ouvrages posthumes de Mabillon et Ruinart, (3 vols., Paris, 1724).[6][7][8] Edition by Thuillier of manuscripts left by Jean Mabillon and Thierry Ruinart, including Ruinart's Iter literarium in Alsatiam et Lotharingiam, De pallio archiepiscopali and Vita S. Urbani.[9]
  • Histoire de la nouvelle édition de Saint Augustin, donnée par les Pères Bénédictins de la Congrégation de S. Maur (1736), edited by Claude-Pierre Goujet.[10]

References

  1. 1.[1.2]Aikin, John (1814). General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order. Vol. 9. G. G. and J. Robinson. p. 186.
  2. 2.Bibliotheque generale des ecrivains de l'ordre de Saint Benoit (in French). Vol. 2. 1777. p. 381.
  3. 3."Early Modern Letters Online : Thuillier, Vincent, 1685-1736 to Bentley, Richard (Dr), 1662-1742". emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
  4. 4.Bentley, Richard (1842). The Correspondence of Richard Bentley. London: J. Murray. pp. 549–552.
  5. 5.Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Walker, John (1692?-1741)". Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  6. 6.Mabillon, Jean (1724). Ouvrages posthumes de D. Jean Mabillon, et de D. Thierri Ruinart, Benedictins de la Congregation de Saint Maur. Vol. I. Paris: François Babuty ... Jean François Josse ... & Jombert le jeune.
  7. 7.Mabillon, Jean; Ruinart, Thierry (1724). Ouvrages posthumes de D. Jean Mabillon et de D. Thierri Ruinart, bénédictins de la congrégation de Saint Maur. Vol. II. Paris: François Babuty, Jean François Josse, Ant. Cl. Briasson.
  8. 8.Ruinart, Thierry (1724). Thuillier, Vincent (ed.). Ouvrages posthumes de D. Jean Mabillon et de D. Thierri Ruinart, bénédictins de la congrégation de Saint Maur. Vol. III. Paris: François Babuty, Jean François Josse, Ant. Cl. Briasson.
  9. 9.Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1912). "Thierry Ruinart". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  10. 10.Quantin, Jean-Louis (16 December 2024). The Patristic Text in the Confessional Age (16th–17th Centuries): Erudition, Theology, Censorship (in French). Brill. p. 17 note 63. ISBN 978-90-04-68907-7.