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David Blondel (1591 - April 6, 1655) was a French Protestant clergyman, historian and classical scholar.

Life

He was born at Châlons-en-Champagne. Ordained in 1614, he'd positions as parish priest at Houdan and Roucy. After 1644, he was relieved of duties, and supported free to study full time.
In 1650 he succeeded GJ Vossius in the professorship of history at Amsterdam. His students included Francis Turretin, and Johann Georg Graevius.

Works

His works were very numerous. In some of them he took a strong critical line with mythological and counterfeit material current as fact in the early modern period. This brought him the admiration of major Enlightenment intellectuals. Jonathan Israel writes:
Pope Joan (1647), he came to the conclusion, now generally accepted, that the story is a myth. Edward Gibbon wrote

   Indignation against him on account of this book came from Protestant polemicists.
   His 1628 book against Francisco Torres conclusively demonstrated that the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals were a very learned forgery. This work was praised by Voltaire, writing in his Dictionnaire Philosophique. Blondel tracked down sources actually used by the Pseudo-Isidore. Later scholarship has sustained his conclusions.
   In a work written as he was going blind, he struck back against Jean-Jacques Chifflet, who had written in favour of the Spanish royal family's genealogical claims, over those of the French kings. In 1655 he produced an anthology of extracts arguing for Protestant eirenicismFurther Information

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