Antoine Touron
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Antoine Touron (5 September 1686 – 2 September 1775) was a French Dominican biographer and historian.
Biography
[edit]Touron was born at Graulhet, Tarn, France, the son of a merchant, and seems to have joined the Dominicans at an early age. After the completion of his studies he taught philosophy and theology to the students of his province (Toulouse); but the later years of his life were devoted to biography, history, and apologetics. He died at Paris.
Works
[edit]Touron wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men. Daniel-Antonin Mortier, in his Histoire des maîtres généraux de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs, made generous use of his Histoire des hommes illustres.
Touron's writings include:
- Vie de saint Thomas d'Aquin
- Vie de saint Dominique avec une hist. abrégée des ses premiers disciples
- Hist. des hommes illustres de l'ordre de saint Dominique
- De la providence, traité hist., dogmat. et mor.
- La main de Dieu sur les incrédules, ou hist. abrégée des Israélites
- Parallèle de l'incrédule et du vrai fidèle
- La vie et l'esprit de saint Charles Borromée
- La verité vengée en faveur de saint Thomas
- Hist. génerale de l'Amérique depuis sa découverte, an ecclesiastical history of the New World.
References
[edit]- Antonin Mortier (1903–1911). Hist. des maîtres gén. de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs (in French). Vol. 5 vols. Paris.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Hugo von Hurter (1895). Nomenclator literarius. Vol. III. Innsbruck. pp. 164–5.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Antoine Touron". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
