Antoine-Augustin Touttée

Antoine-Augustin Touttée (b. at Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, 13 December1677; d. at the Abbey of St. Germain-des-Prés, 25 December1718) was a French Benedictine scholar of the Maurist Congregation.

Life

He studied the humanities with the Oratorians at Riom, made vows at the Abbey of Vendôme, 29 October, 1698, and was ordained priest in December, 1702. He taught philosophy at Vendôme from 1702 to 1704 and theology at St-Benoît-sur-Loire from 1704-1708, and at St-Denis from 1708 to 1712.

Works

He then withdrew to St-Germain-des-Prés to prepare a new Greek edition and Latin translation of the works of Cyril of Jerusalem. This was issued after his death by Prudent Maran under the title: "S. Cyrilli Hiersolymit. opera quae extant omnia et ejus nomine circumferunter; ad mss. codd. castigata" (Paris, 1720; also in "Patrologia Graeca", XXXIII). It is preceded by three learned dissertations on the life, writings, and doctrine of St. Cyril, and was at the time the standard edition.

References

*Tassin, "Hist. litteraire de la congreg. de Saint-Maur" (Brussels and Paris, 1770); German tr. (Frankfort, 1773-4), s.v.;
*Le Cerf, "Bibliotheque historique et critique des auteurs de la congreg. de Saint-Maur" (The Hague, 1720), s.v.