Jean-Noël Paquot
Jean-Noël Paquot (1722–1803) was a Belgian theologian, historian, Hebrew scholar and bibliographer.
Life
Paquot was born in Florennes in 1722 and died in Cork in 1803.
In 1751, he received a degree in theology from the University of Louvain.[1] From 1755 to 1772 he taught Hebrew at the Collegium Trilingue in Leuven, where he was also librarian. He was also an advisor to Empress Maria Theresa.
Works
He wrote a book encompassing the entire literary history of the Low Countries, in all languages, entitled Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire littéraire des dix-sept provinces des Pays-Bas, de la principauté de Liège et de quelques contrées voisines ("Memoirs for the literary history of the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands, the Principality of Liege, and some neighboring countries"), Leuven, 1763-1770, 18 volumes in octavo or in three folio volumes, Leuven, 1765-1770.
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