Daniel de Superville (1657–1728)

[1] His first publication was a series of 12 letters, Lettres sur les devoirs de l'église affligée ("On the Duties of the Afflicted Church"), in November 1691.

His great-grandfather Jean de Superville served as personal physician to King Henry IV of France.

As part of King Louis XIV of France's persecution of Huguenots, the dragonnades instituted in 1681, he was charged in mid-1685 with preaching a seditious sermon, and was detained in Paris for three months to await trial.

He accepted the position and remained pastor until he was succeeded by one of his sons (also named Daniel de Superville) on 13 September 1725.

[2][3] Surviving children were: His son Daniel de Superville (1700-1762) succeeded him as pastor of the Walloon Church in Rotterdam.

His daughter Emilie married Pierre Humbert, a merchant from Geneva who had settled in Amsterdam in 1706 as a bookseller and publisher.

Jean's son Jean Emile Humbert (1771–1839) was a lieutenant-colonel credited with rediscovering ancient Carthage, and his son David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville was an artist and art scholar who authored the influential Essai sur les signes inconditionnels dans l'art.