Jean-Jacques Bourassé

Jean-Jacques Bourassé (22 December 1813, Ste.-Maure (Indre-et-Loire), France—4 October 1872, Tours) was a French Roman Catholic priest, archaeologist and historian.

In 1835, he taught the natural sciences at the preparatory seminary of Tours, where he began a course of archaeology that soon attracted attention.

The results achieved by him in a comparatively new field of research were such as to entitle him to be considered a veritable pioneer in France of the science of Christian archaeology.

In 1884 he became professor at the grand séminaire and held the chair of dogmatic theology there for six years.

Together with Pierre-Désiré Janvier in 1843 he published a French translation of the Bible from the Vulgate.