Background
He received his first education from his father, who owned a private libray.
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Education
He studied theology in Le Mans.
Career
In 1677 the family got into financial difficulties and he became a novice in Saint-Florent de Saumur. In 1682 he was a Benedictine in Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. In 1696 he came into trouble with his prior and fled to Basel.
He received support from the Swiss Reformed professors Peter Werenfels and J. Buxtorf in Basel and he converted to the Reformed Church.
In 1697 he became a Prussian royal librarian in Berlin. Since 1725 he was also professor of philosophy at the French Collegium in Berlin.
He left many unpublished works and a considerable private library. Besides French, he spoke Latin, German, Armenian, and some Semitic and Slavic languages.
Among his unpublished works were four dictionaries in Coptic, Armenian, Slavic and Syriac.
Membership
Prussian Academy of Sciences]
He also was a teacher for several members of the royal family.
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March 21, 1739 (aged 77)