ALLIX, PIERRE. - Theologian and Protestant minister, born at Alençon in 1641, died in London on 3 March 1717. Esteemed as one of the most learned and effective polemicists of the French Reformed Church, he was well versed in Hebrew and Syriac, and undertook with the Calvinist pastor Claude a new French translation of the Bible. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he went to London, where he was able to establish a church for the exiles, though officiating according to the Anglican rite; he was also appointed canon at Salisbury and proclaimed Doctor of Theology by the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
A prolific writer, though full of singular and bizarre ideas, several of his works were placed on the Index; one under his name: *Dissertatio de trisagi origine* (s.l. 1674); others anonymously, including: *Dissertatio de conciliorum quorumdam definitionibus* (Rouen 1674); *De sanguine D. N. Jesu Christi ad epist. 146 s. Augustini, quae num adhuc existat, inquiritur* (Rouen 1674); *De Tertulliani vita et scriptis*, Paris 1680 (respectively condemned by decrees of 1678 and 1702).