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Louis de Beaufort (6 October 1703 – 11 August 1795) was a French historian of whose life little is known. His brother was Daniel Cornelius de Beaufort (1700-1788). In 1738 he published at Utrecht a ''Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq prèmiers siècles de l'histoire romaine'', in which he showed what untrustworthy guides even the historians of highest repute, such as Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, were for that period, and pointed out by what methods and by the aid of what documents truly scientific bases might be given to its history. This was an ingenious plea, bold for its time, against traditional history such as Rollin was writing at that very moment. A German, Christopher Saxius, endeavoured to refute it in a series of articles published in vols. i.-iii. of the ''Miscellanea Liviensia''. Beaufort replied by some brief and ironic ''Remarques'' in the appendix to the second edition of his ''Dissertation'' (1750). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in October, 1746. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Library and Archive Catalogue ) 〕 He also wrote an ''Histoire de Cesar Germanicus'' (Leyden, 1761), and ''La République romaine, ou plan general de l'ancien gouvernement de Rome'' (The Hague, 1766, 2 vols quarto). Though not a scholar of the first rank, Beaufort has at least the merit of having been a pioneer in raising the question, afterwards elaborated by Niebuhr, as to the credibility of early Roman history. ==References== 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「Louis de Beaufort」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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