HARDOUIN, JEAN. - French Jesuit scholar, b. at Quimper on 22 Dec. 1646, d. at Paris on 3 Sept. 1729.

He taught positive theology, but devoted himself with success to many other branches of learning, so much so that he was regarded as the most learned man of the Society of his times. His doctrinal boldness brought him disagreements and controversies and a condemnation on the part of his religious superiors, which he humbly countersigned. A condemnation by the Index fell ten years after his death upon the Opera selecta and the Opera varia (decr. 2 July 1737) published arbitrarily at Amsterdam without those corrections which the author had made to them, and upon the Commentarius in Novum Testamentum (decr. 15 Jan. 1742).

He dealt with subjects of history, philology and archaeology; his memory, however, is particularly linked to his sacred treatises: a dissertation on Sancti Iohannis Chrysostomi epistula ad Caesarium monachum (Paris 1689), followed then by the Défense de la lettre de st Chrysostome à Césaire (ibid. 1690), another dissertation on De supremo

Domini nostri Paschate (ibid. 1695), a refutation of the Anglican ordinations: La défense des Ordinations anglicanes refutée (ibid. 1727) and several monographs of biblical exegesis. His major work, however, on which he labored by commission of the Assembly of the French clergy of 1678, is: Acta Conciliorum et epistulae decretales ac constitutiones Summarum Pontificum from the year 34 to 1714 (11 vols. in-fol., ibid. 1715), which served as the basis for the other great collections.

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, IV, coll. 84-111; IX, coll. 456-57; F. H. Reusch, Der Index des verbotenen Bücher, II, Bonn 1885, p. 804 ff.; H. Quentin, Mani et les grandes collections roneliaires, Paris 1900, pp. 38-54; P. Bernard, s. v. in D'ThC, VI, coll. 2042-46 with bibl.; E. Galletier, Un breton du XVIIe siècle à l'avangarde de la critique, in Annales de Bretagne, 36 (1924), pp. 462-83; 30 (1925), pp. 171-87; J. van Ooteghem, Un commentateur extravagant d'Horace: le P. H., in Les études classiques, 13 (1945), 222-35.

Cosimo Petino

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