Matthieu Bochart (c. 19 March 1619 — 1662) was a French Protestant minister at Alençon from 1635-1662.Matthieu BochartPenny Cyclopaedia. Vol. 5. Blo-Buf/ p. 34Bochart, Mathieu (16..-1662)Matthieu Bochart
Career Bochart published and Dictionnaire Historique et Critique. Nouveau dictionnaire historique et critique, pour servir de supplement ou de continuation au Dictionnaire historique et critique de Mr. Pierre Bayle. Par Jaques George De Chaufepié. Tome premier quatrieme IP. 3 / p. 499 Judicial proceedings were commenced against him for having used the forbidden title of pastors for Protestant ministers. He published Dialogue sur les difficultés que les Missionnaires font aux Protestant de France. This dialogue on the tolerance of Lutheran errors inspired the Elector Palatine to try and unite the two reformed churches in Germany, the Lutheran and the Calvinist churches. Palatine advocated their union in the assembly of Protestant princes at Frankfurt. Upon hearing this, Matthieu Bochart published his Dialectician, a conciliatory treatise, in 1662, which he dedicated to Palatine. It contains the plan of this projected union. Matthieu's cousin is the more well-known Samuel Bochart.Penny Cyclopaedia. Vol. 5. Blo-Buf/ p. 34
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Diallacticon, seu tractatus de conciliandis in religionis negotio Protestantium animis (1662)
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