Scholastique Pitton
Jean Scholastique Pitton (18 December 1621 – 21 February 1689) was a French writer and historian.
Jean Scholastique Pitton | |
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 Scholastique Pitton by Joseph Villevieille (1829–1916) | |
| Born | 18 December 1621 Aix-en-Provence, France |
| Died | 21 February 1698 (aged 76) Aix-en-Provence, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Writer, historian |
Biography
Jean Scholastique Pitton was born in Aix-en-Provence on 18 December 1621. At a young age he decided to become a doctor, and he pursued this occupation in Saint-Chamas, Bouches-du-Rhône. However his passion for history made him neglect his patients. Pitton wanted to become a historian, following in this the model of the Aix historian Honoré Bouche whose reputation he envied. Although he admired Bouche, he never ceased "to decry him or to bite him."[1]
After the death of his second wife, Pitton requested a dispensation from Rome to take holy orders. He obtained it the day he married his third wife.[2] He was the author of a History of the city of Aix (1666), considered of some usefulness by his successors, although badly ordered and badly written.[2] His later writings received better reviews. He died in Aix-en-Provence on 21 February 1698.
Bibliography
Works by Pitton include,
- Histoire de la ville d'Aix, Aix (1666)
- Annales de l'église d'Aix, Lyon (1668)
- Traité des eaux chaudes d'Aix, Aix (1678)
- De conscribenda historia rerum naturalium Provinciæ, Aix (1679)
- Sentimens sur les historiens de Provence, Aix (1682)
Sources
- Achard, Claude-François (1785), Dictionnaire historique de la Provence (in French)
- Hoefer, Jean Chrétien Ferdinand, ed. (1862), Nouvelle bibliographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours (in French), vol. XXXIX, Ed. Firmin-Didot