Jobert, Louis
, a pious and learned Jesuit, was a
native of Paris, where he was born in 1647. He taught
polite literature in his own order, and distinguished himself as a preacher. He died at Paris in 1719. There are
several tracts of piety of his writing, besides a piece entitled “La Science des Medailles,” of which the best
edition is that of Paris, in 1739, 2 vols. 12mo, but this
superiority it owes to the editor, M. le Baron Bimard de
la Bastie; and even of this edition, the second volume is a
mere farrago of useless lumber. Pinkerton, who expresses
a very low opinion of this work, affirms that Jobert borrowed much from Charles Patin’s “Introduction to the
History of Medals,” without any acknowledgment. 2
·
· 
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Entry taken from
General Biographical Dictionary,
by Alexander Chalmers, 1812–1817.
This text has been generated using commercial OCR software,
and there are still many problems; it is slowly getting better
over time.
The text was scanned and OCRd several times, and
a majority version of each line of text was chosen.
Please don't reuse the content
(e.g. do not post to wikipedia)
without asking liam
at fromoldbooks dot org first (mention the colour of your socks in the subject line of the mail),
because I am still working on fixing errors.
Thanks!
Works
La Science des Medailles, 1739
Works Online
Works found by this author (or others with similar names)in the Early English Books Online Collection:
The knowledge of medals, or, Instructions for those who apply themselves to the study of medals both ancient and modern from the French.Science des médailles. English (1697)