Court de Gébelin, Antoine

Court de Gébelin, Antoine

▪ French scholar and writer
born Jan. 25, 1725, Nîmes, France
died May 12, 1784, Paris

      French scholar, philologist, and prose writer, who is remembered for an unfinished study of ancient language and mythology and for championing the causes of Protestantism and of American independence from Great Britain.

      Like his noted father, Antoine Court (1695–1760), Court de Gébelin was a pastor of the French Reformed church. Though later preoccupied with literary work, he remained a tolerant propagandist for Protestantism, as in a work called Les Lettres toulousaines (1763; “The Toulouse Letters”). With the American patriot Benjamin Franklin and others he supported U.S. independence in Affaires de l'Angleterre et de l'Amérique (1776 et seq.; “Affairs of England and America”). His most important work of scholarship was the unfinished Le Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne (1773–84; “The Primitive World, Analyzed and Compared with the Modern World”), which, among other things, offered a theory of allegory, a history of the calendar, a comparative grammar, and a universal theory of languages.

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