Famous People with Name Bayle

Antoine Laurent Jessé Bayle            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Antoine Laurent Jessé Bayle: was a French physician who was a native of the département Alpes-Maritimes. He was a nephew to pathologist Gaspard Laurent Bayle (1774–1816). He studied medicine in Paris, and worked as an interne under Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard (1768–1825) at the Charenton mental asylum. Later he became an associate professor and deputy librarian of the Faculté de Médecine de Paris. He resigned from this position in 1834 and opened a private practice.

Gaspard Laurent Bayle            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gaspard Laurent Bayle: was a French physician. He studied medicine under Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755–1821), and was a colleague to René Laënnec (1781–1826). Beginning in 1805 he practiced medicine at the Charité in Paris. He was an uncle to physician Antoine Laurent Bayle (1799–1859).

Pierre Bayle            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pierre Bayle: was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1695. Bayle was a self-pronounced Protestant and as a fideist he advocated a separation between the spheres of faith and reason, on the grounds of God being incomprehensible to man. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment.

Moyse Antoine Pierre Jean Bayle            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Moyse Antoine Pierre Jean Bayle: was a French politician of the French Revolution.