Chauvin, Stephen
, a protestant clergyman, was
born at Nismes in 1640, and being obliged to leave his
country upon the revocation of the edict of Nantes, went
to Rotterdam, and afterwards to Berlin, where he became
professor of philosophy. He died in 1725 at the age of
eighty-five. He published, 1. A “Lexicon philosophicum,”
Rotterdam, 1692, fol. and at Leuwarden, 1713, with plates.
2. A new “Journal des Savans,” begun in 1694 at Rotterdam, and continued at Berlin, but less esteemed than
| the “Histoire des Ouvrages des Sçavans” by Basnage, who
on the continent was considered as a better writer, and a
man of more taste. 1
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Lexicon philosophicum, 1692
Journal des Savans, 1694