Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
Early Life
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet was born in the Burgundian city of Dijon, where his father, Bénigne, was a lawyer. From 1636 to 1642, he attended a Jesuit school in Dijon, where he studied rhetoric, Greek, and Latin. During his lifetime, Bossuet read an enormous amount of works written in both Latin and Greek. His lengthy study with the Jesuits would help him years later to understand the many influences of the classical tradition on the development of Christian theology. In October of 1642, he began his preparation for the priesthood and his formal study of theology at...
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