, surnamed D'!Berville, professor of ecclesiastical history at Utrecht,
, surnamed D'!Berville, professor of
ecclesiastical history at Utrecht, was born at Rouen in
1639. His father, a Protestant and a man of opulence, had
him educated with great care. He was first instructed in
classical learning at Quevilli, a village near Rouen, where
the Protestants had a college and church. Thence ne
went to Saumur, where he learned Hebrew under Louis
Cappel, and improved his knowledge of Latin and Greek
under Tanaquil le Fevre, who was particularly attached to
him, corresponded with him after he left Saumur, and dedicated to him one of his works. Bauldri also studied divinity in this university, and afterwards went to England,
and resided some years at Oxford, passing most of his time
in the Bodleian library, and becoming acquainted with
Henry Justel, the king’s librarian, and Dr. Fell, bishop of
Oxford. After having twice visited England, he returned
to his own country, and gave himself up to study, enlarging his library by a judicious selection of valuable books.
He brought from England an Arabian, with whom he studied that language. In 1682 he married, at Rouen, Magdalen Basnage, the daughter of Henry. After the revocation
of the edict of Nantz, he intended to have taken refuge in
England, but his friends and admirers in Holland invited
him thither, and by their interest he was, in 1685, appointed professor of ecclesiastical history in the university of
Utrecht. In 1692 he published, 1. A new edition of Lac tantius “De mortibus persecutorum,
” with learned notes.
He published also, 2. A new edition of Furetiere’s “Nouvelle allegorique, ou, Histoire des derniers troubles arrives
au royaume d'eloquence,
” Utrecht, Critical remarks on the book of Job,
” inserted in Basnage’s
memoirs of the works of the learned, August 1696. 4. A
letter on the same subject, July 1697, and some other dissertations in the literary journals. The states of Utrecht
endeavoured to obtain for M. Bauldri the restitution of his
property at the treaty of Ryswick, but did not succeed.
He died at Utrecht, highly esteemed, Feb. 16, 1706.