Guerin, Maurice de, a French poet, of noble birth; bred for the Church, but broke away from it; of a genius of marked promise, whose days were cut short by an early death; his works included a prose poem called the “Centaur” (1810‒1838).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Guericke, Otto von * Guerin, Pierre