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Claude Buffier
Claude Buffier (25 May 1661 – 17 May 1737), French philosopher, historian and teacher, was born in Poland of French parents, who returned to France and settled in Rouen soon after his birth.
He was educated at the Jesuit college there, and he was received into the Order at the age of nineteen. A dispute with the archbishop compelled him to leave Rouen. After a short stay in Rome, he returned to Paris to the college of the Jesuits, where he spent the rest
martyr and missionary to Madura, India (present-day Tamil Nadu)
- Stephen Brown (Jesuit), founder of the Central Catholic Library
- Claude Buffier, aimed to discover the ultimate principal of knowledge, praised by Voltaire
- Joannes Busaeus, theologian at Mainz University who wrote in defence of the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in Germany
- William J. Byron, President of the University of Scranton (1975-1982), President of Catholic University of America (1982-1992), Interim President of