David Blondel

David Blondel (1591 – 6 April 1655) was a French Protestant clergyman, historian and classical scholar.

In some of them he took a strong critical line with mythological and counterfeit material current as fact in the early modern period.

Jonathan Israel writes: ...the real work of discrediting and disposing of the Oracula Sibyllina, Chaldean chronicles, and Orphic hymns, ... seemingly only began, as Diderot noted in 1751, in the 1650s when the Huguenot scholar David Blondel ... published his treatise on the Oracula in Amsterdam.

[3]In his dissertation on Pope Joan (1647),[4] he came to the conclusion, now generally accepted, that the story is a myth.

[5] His 1628 book against Francisco Torres[6] conclusively demonstrated that the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals were a very learned forgery.