STEPHEN, a celebrated minister of the Reformed religion, born at Nismes, who retired to Rotterdam at the revocation of the edict of Nantes, where he began a new Journal des Scavans. He was afterwards made professor of philosophy at Berlin, and discharged that office with much honour and reputation. His principal work is a Lexicon Philosophicum, which he published at Rotterdam in 1692. A new and enlarged edition was printed at Leiden in 1725. Chauvin died in 1725.