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Paul Beauchamp (1924-2001) was a Jesuit, theologian and exegete French, specialist in Sacred Scripture and biblical theology.
Born in 1925 in Tours, in 1941 he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Laval. In 1948 he left for China, where he remained until 1951. Throughout his life, he maintained a great sensitivity to this country, as shown by a number of publications. Ordained as a priest in 1954, he then spent time at the Institut Biblique in Jerusalem, then in Rome. A doctor in biblical exegesis, his teaching career was divided between the Jesuit Faculty of Theology at Fourvière and the Centre Sèvres in Paris, where he trained generations of students. He died on April 23, 2001.
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