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Isaac de Beausobre
1738Jun, 5

Isaac de Beausobre

Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor and theologian (b. 1659)
Isaac de Beausobre (8 March 1659 – 5 June 1738) was a French Protestant churchman, now best known for his two-volume history of Manichaeism, Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manichéisme .

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