Antoine Touron (5 September 1686 – 2 September 1775) was a French Dominican biographer and historian.

Biography

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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

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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

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  • 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 domainHerbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Antoine Touron". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.