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Polydore Hochart (1831-1916) was a French ship owner and writer interested in literary, religious and historical studies

He generally wrote his books under the pseudonym of H. Dacbert. In particular, he questioned the authenticity of the Annals and Histories of Tacitus. According to Polydore Hochart, these two works of Tacitus were forgeries. They would have been written by Poggio Bracciolini, an Italian humanist of the fifteenth century, reworking the course of events in favor of the Christians, particularly in the context of the persecution of Christians under the Roman Empire. This hypothesis simply repeats the one put forward a few years earlier, in 1878, by John Wilson Ross in a book entitled Tacitus and Bracciolini: The annals forged in the XVth century Polydore Hochart also challenged the authenticity of Pliny the Younger's Letters to Trajan concerning the Christians of Bithynia, finding a little more support. However, historians today reject the theses supported by Hochart, both on Tacitus and on Pliny the Younger. According to them, they are part of the Hypercriticism.

Works

 * Observations sur les classes d'adultes, présentées au comité d'administration de la Société philomathique, Bordeaux: Gounouilhou 1864
 * Sénèque et la mort d'Agrippine, étude historique, Leiden: E. J. Brill 1884
 * Étude sur la signification de quelques mots du Nouveau Testament, Leiden 1884
 * Persécution des chrétiens sous Néron. In Annales de la Faculté des lettres de Bordeaux, 1884, 2nd leaflet, pp. 44-167. Article available here [PDF ] on Gallica, or on this site [PDF ].
 * Études au sujet de la persécution des chrétiens sous Néron. Paris: E. Leroux 1885
 * Études sur la vie de Sénèque. Paris: E. Leroux 1885
 * Études d'histoire religieuse. Bordeaux: Gounouilhou 1884
 * De l'Authenticité des Annales et des Histoires de Tacite. Ouvrage accompagné de 5 pages des manuscrits de Florence et de 68 lettres de Poggio Bracciolini, Paris: E. Thorin 1890
 * Nouvelles considérations au sujet des Annales et des Histoires de Tacite. Paris: Thorin et fils 1894