Antoine Court de Gébelin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antoine Court de Gébelin

French writer and scholar

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

Date of Death: 10-May-1784

Profession: writer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Antoine Court, who named himself Antoine Court de Gébelin (Nîmes, January 25, 1725 – Paris, May 10, 1784), was a former Protestant pastor, born at Nîmes, who initiated the interpretation of the Tarot as an arcane repository of timeless esoteric wisdom in 1781.The New International Encyclopedia of 1914 reports that Court de Gébelin, who adopted the surname of his grandmother, was a literary man of recognized rank, and rendered excellent service, first as his father's amanuensis and assistant and afterward as a scholar at the capital.
He is remembered in connection with the case of Jean Calas, by his work Les Toulousaines, ou lettres historiques et apologétiques en faveur de la religion réformée (Lausanne, 1763).