Astruc, Jean, a French physician and professor of medicine in Paris, now noted as having discovered that the book of Genesis consists of Elohistic and Jehovistic portions, and who by this discovery founded the modern school called of the Higher Criticism (1681-1766).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Astrology * Astu`rias