ALLIX, PIERRE. - Protestant theologian and minister, b. at Alençon in 1641, d. in London on 3 March 1717. Considered one of the most learned and effective polemicists of the French Reformed Church, highly versed in Hebrew and Syriac, he undertook with the Calvinist pastor Claude a new French translation of the Bible. Having gone to London after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he was able there to open 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 very prolific writer, though full of singular and bizarre ideas, he has several works on the Index; one under his own name: Dissertatio de trisagi origine (s. l. 1674); others anonymous, among them: Dissertatio de conciliorum quorundam 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 decrees of 1678 and 1702).