Chevalier, Antoine Rudolphe

Chevalier, Antoine Rudolphe, a French theologian, was born in 1507, at Montchamps, Normandy. He was professor of Hebrew at Strasburg, Geneva, and Caen. In 1568 he had to leave the latter place on account of religious. persecution, and went to England, where he became professor at Cambridge. In 1570 he returned to Caen, but was obliged in: 1572 to leave it again, and went to the isle of Guernsey, where he died the same year. He is the author. of Rudimenta- Hebr. Lang. Accurata Methodo Conscipta (Geneva, 1560, a. o.) See First, Bibl, Jud. i, 151.; Steinschneider, Bibliogr. Handbuch, p. 34; Cadtalogus Libr. Hebr. in Biblioth. Bodleiana, p. 2684;. Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i 114; Biog. Universelle, s.v.; Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B. P.).