Étienne de Courcelles
Deceased Person
1586 – 1659
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Who was Étienne de Courcelles?
Étienne de Courcelles was an Arminian Greek scholar and translator.
He studied from 1609 in Zürich, and after was French Protestant minister of Amiens, translator of Grotius, and successor of Simon Episcopius at the Remonstrant seminary in Amsterdam. He is credited with introducing Cartesianism into Dutch Arminian circles. Courcelles was a personal friend of Descartes, and translated the Discours de la méthode and Les méteores into Latin, but he was only superficially influenced by Descartes.
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