Jacques Echard (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Thomas Schwertner · 1913
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Description
Jacques Echard, a Dominican historian, was born at Rouen on 22 September 1644 and died at Paris on 15 March 1724. As the son of a wealthy royal official, he got a thorough grounding in classical and secular learning. He joined the Dominican order at Paris and stood out for hard study, and when Jacques Quétif died in 1698, Echard picked up his unfinished project.
Quétif had mapped out a literary history of the Dominican order and had pulled together close to a fourth of its material; Echard was charged with finishing the work. After long labor and research in most of Europe's libraries, the history came out in 1721, filling two quarto volumes under the title Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum. Each writer's sketch sets out a list of works, with dates and edition details, and Echard likewise lists unpublished, spurious, and doubtful works.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Thomas Schwertner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |