three volumes appeared at Amsterdam in 1748; and a German translation in two volumes at was published at Köthen in 1802–4. He had previously made an anonymous continuation to Count H. de Boulainvilliers's 'La Vie de Mahomed,’ London, 1730. Gagnier's other publications were: 'Lettre sur les Médailles Samaritaines,’ printed in 'Nouvelles de la République des Lettres,’ in the Journal de Trévoux, 1705, and a Latin version in vol. xxviii. of Ugolinus's 'Thesaurus Antiquitatum' (p. 1283). 'Tabula nova et accurata exhibens paradigmata omnium conjugationum Hebraicarum,’ four large leaves, Oxford, 1710, printed for his pupils. 'Carolina. Ecloga in diem natalem Willielminæ Carolinæ, serenissimæ Principis Walliæ,’ London, 1719. 'Liber Petra Scandali de principio et causa schismatis duarum ecclesiarum Orientalis et Occidentalis, ex Græco Arabice redditus,’, Oxford, 1721. 'Animadversiones in novam Josephi Gorionidis editionem à Jo. Frid. Breithaupto publicatam,’ printed in vol. v. of Le Clerc's 'Bibliothèque Choisie.' He also contributed to vol. ii. of J. A. Fabricius's edition of 'St. Hippolytus' (1716), 'Fragmenta ex catena in Pentateuchum,’ &c., with a Latin translation. At the invitation of Richard Mead he translated from Arabic the treatise of Rhazes on small-pox. 'Instructions sur les Nicodémites,’ attributed to Gagnier, was shown by Barbier to have been written by Jean Graverol. References Attribution 1670 births 1740 deaths French orientalists University of Paris alumni Lord Almoner's Professors of Arabic (University of Oxford) 18th-century English Anglican priests French expatriates in England