Pierre Daniel Huet

Pierre Daniel Huet (1630–1721) was a prominent French churchman and scholar, renowned for his role as the editor of the Delphin Classics. He was also the founder of the Académie de Physique in Caen, established between 1662 and 1672, which was an early provincial academy of science. Huet served as the Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689, and subsequently held the position of Bishop of Avranches. His intellectual life was marked by a wide range of interests, including classical literature, translation, mathematics, astronomy, and anatomy. He made significant contributions to scholarship, including his work on Origen and his treatises on the theory and practice of translation. Huet was a member of the Académie française and a respected figure in the intellectual circles of his time.