CHAMIER, DANIEL, an eminent Protestant divine, born in Dauphiny. He was for many years preacher at Montellimart, an office which he exchanged in 1612 for the chair of divinity at Montauban, where he was killed by a cannon-ball during the siege in 1621.
He wrote Panthea Catholica, 4 vols. fol. 1620, edited by Turretin, and abridged in 1 vol. fol. by Frederic Spanheim the elder; De Genesino Pontifice, libri sex, 8vo, Geneva, 1601; and Corpus Theologicum, Geneva, 1653.