- First name
- Pierre Daniel
- Last name
- Huet
- Date of Birth
- 1630
- Date of Death
- 1721
- Born in
- Caen
- Died in
- Paris
Pierre Daniel Huet was a French churchman and scholar. He took an interest in subjects ranging from anatomy and vivisection to mathematics, astronomy and biblical criticism. Huet was patron and founder of the Académie Physique de Caen (1662–72). A prolific writer, Huet earned a reputation for a teaching edition of the Latin classics (ad usum Delphini). Despite his earlier admiration for Descartes, his attacks on Cartesian epistemology (Censura philosophiae Cartesianae, 1689) made him a leading proponent of fideism. Huet converted to Roman Catholicism, took holy orders in 1674 and was installed as bishop Avranches (1685). See: BBK, vol. 2, cols 1126–8; Jaumann, 2004, pp. 344–5; Shelford, 2007.