ANDRY, NICOLAS. - French theologian and physician, brother of Claude, b. in Lyon in 1658, d. in Paris on 13 May 1742. At the age of 32 he abandoned the ecclesiastical state in order to devote himself, under the pseudonym of Boisregard, to the study of medicine. In 1724 he was appointed dean of the faculty of Paris.
He wrote, among other things, Le régime de carême considéré par rapport à la nature du corps et des aliments (Paris 1710) and a Traité des aliments de carême (2 vols., Paris 1713): works in which numerous questions concerning abstinence and fasting are illustrated from the scientific as well as the moral point of view.
Bibliography3 worksHurter, IV, coll. 750-51; J.-B. Martin, s. v. in DThC, I, col. 1188; P. Bernard, s. v. in DHG, I, coll. 1806-1807.
BIBL.: Hurter, IV, coll. 750-51; J.-B. Martin, s. v. in DThC, I, col. 1188; P. Bernard, s. v. in DHG, I, coll. 1806-1807.
Liuzzi, Ferruccio. “Andry, nicolas.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1216. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/andry-nicolas.
MLA
Liuzzi, Ferruccio. “Andry, nicolas.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1216. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/andry-nicolas.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_andry_nicolas,
author = {Liuzzi, Ferruccio},
title = {Andry, nicolas},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {1216},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/andry-nicolas}
}
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