MORIN (Stephen), minister of the Protestant reformed religion at Caen, the place of his birth, was admitted a member of the Academy of Belles Lettres in that city, notwithstanding an express law which excluded Protestants. His great learning gained him this mark of distinction. After the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he retired to Leyden in 1685, and from that to Amsterdam, where he was appointed professor of Oriental languages. He died in 1700, at the age of 75, after being long subject to infirmities both of body and mind. He published eight dissertations in Latin relating to subjects of antiquity, which are extremely curious. The Dordrecht edition of 1700, 8vo, is the best, and preferable to that published at Geneva in 1683, 4to. He wrote likewise the life of Samuel Bochart.