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Dom Joseph Vaissète (or Vaissette) (1685 – 10 April 1756) was a scholarly French Benedictine monk who wrote a history of Languedoc and a geography of the world as it was known in his day. Vaissette's ''Histoire générale de Languedoc'' is still considered a work of great erudition and value, often consulted by modern historians. The ''Geography'' had its faults, but was the most detailed and accurate of its day. Some names differ from modern usage. Thus he gives the name ''La Côte des Dents'' ("Coast of Teeth") to what is now the ''Côte d'Ivoire'' ("Ivory Coast"). ==Life== Vaissète was born at Gaillac in the diocese of Albi in 1685. His father was the procurer general of Albi. He attended school in his hometown, then moved to Toulouse for further studies, becoming a doctor of theology and a doctor of civil and canon law. He wanted to enter orders immediately, but at his father's request acted as his father's substitute as procureur general for some years before retiring from the world and taking up the monastic and scholarly life in 1711. At the age of 26, on 11 July 1711 he entered the Benedictine order in the Monastery of La Daurade, in Toulouse. Soon after, he received the news of his father's death. Vaissète's taste for history caused his superiors to call him to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris in 1713. In 1715 he was charged with co-authoring a history of Languedoc with Dom Claude de Vic. The two authors were able to use the prior work of Dom Gabriel Marcland and Dom Pierre Auzieres, two learned and capable scholars who had separately worked in the province for several years, combing the libraries for material and making considerable progress in organizing the material, but who had not been able to continue due to their advanced age or other jobs. The first volume of the ''Histoire générale de Languedoc'' appeared in folio in 1730. Dom de Vic died in 1734, leaving Dom Vaissette in sole charge of the great work, which he executed with success and which was published in four more volumes, the fifth appearing in 1745. Dom Vaissette published a four-volume universal geography in 1855. The character of Dom Vaissette combined simplicity and candour with spirit and erudition. He died at Saint-Germain-des-Prés on 10 April 1756. His co-worker Dom Bourotte was charged with finishing the history. Dom Vaissette was buried in the chapel of Sainte Vierge with his fellow monk Dom Sensaric, who had died on the same day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Vaissète」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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