Pierre Henri Larcher (12 October 1726 – 22 December 1812) was a French classical scholar and archaeologist.
His attack upon Voltaire's Philosophie de l'historie (published under the name of l'Abbé Bazin) created considerable interest at the time.
His archaeological and mythological Memoire sur Venus (1775), which has been ranked with similar works of Heyne and Winckelmann, gained him admission to the Academie des Inscriptions (1778).
[1] After the imperial university was founded, he was appointed professor of Greek literature (1809) with Boissonade as his assistant.
1844, by W. D. Cooley) dealing with historical, geographical and chronological questions, and enriched by a wealth of illustration from ancient and modern authors, is not without value.