biography
pronunciation:
[astrük]
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| lived:
| (1684–1766)
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| biography:
| Physician and biblical scholar, medical consultant to Louis XV, born in Sauve, S France. He taught medicine at Montpellier and Paris. He is famous for a work he wrote on the book of Genesis which was to serve as the basis for subsequent theories of Biblical criticism. |
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