Samuel Petit (Latin: Petitus) (1594 – 1653) was a French Huguenot pastor, known as a classical scholar and orientalist.
[1] From Nîmes, the son of the pastor François Petit of Saint-Ambroix, and Noémi Ollivier, he studied oriental languages at Geneva from 1610 to 1612.
He became professor of Greek at the Collège des Arts at Nîmes in 1615, and pastor there in the same year, a position he held for the rest of his life.
Their surviving daughter Antoinette married the physician Pierre Formi.
[6] Petit brought up his orphaned nephew Samuel de Sorbière, whose mother Louisa was his sister.