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Isaac Casaubon ( 18 February 1559, Geneva – 1 July 1614, London ) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England, regarded by many of his time as the most learned in Europe.
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Isaac Casaubon, classical scholar and editor of Greek texts, provided the first critical edition in 1587.
The classical scholar Isaac Casaubon in De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI ( 1614 ) showed, through an analysis of the Greek language used in the texts, that those texts which were believed to be of ancient origin were in fact much more recent: most of the " philosophical " Corpus Hermeticum can be dated to around AD 300.
Muretus in the latter part of his life professed the strictest orthodoxy, Lipsius had been reconciled to the Church of Rome, Isaac Casaubon was supposed to be wavering, but Scaliger was known to be an irreconcilable Protestant.
In 1855, he resigned the tutorship, travelled to Germany to investigate Continental systems of education, and began his researches into the lives of Isaac Casaubon and Joseph Justus Scaliger, which occupied the remainder of his life.
His biography of Isaac Casaubon appeared in 1875 ; he also wrote about John Milton in Macmillan's " English Men of Letters " series in 1879.
The encyclopaedist and author Sir Thomas Browne wrote a short essay upon Athenaeus which reflects a revived interest in the Banquet of the Learned amongst scholars during the 17th century following its publication in 1612 by the Classical scholar Isaac Casaubon.
However the classical scholar Isaac Casaubon ( 1559 – 1614 ) successfully argued that some, mainly those dealing with philosophy, betrayed too recent a vocabulary.
Mary Gentle named a character in her novels Rats and Gargoyles and the Architecture of Desire Casaubon, as an homage to Isaac Casaubon.
In their book Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg show that Casaubon was a Hebrew scholar too, taking serious interest in Jewish studies.
The Jewish bibliographer Isaac ben Jacob in his Bibliography Otsar Hasefarim 1880, mentions notations on Michlol, the Hebrew book by David Kimhi on Hebrew grammar, which he attributes to one " Rabbi Isaac Casaubon ".
*“ I have always loved the Holy Tongue ”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
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:* Vayeira, on Genesis 18 – 22: Abraham's visitors, Sodomites, Lot's visitors and flight, Hagar expelled, binding of Isaac
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual () ( 29 May 1860, Camprodon – 18 May 1909, Cambo-les-Bains ) was a Spanish pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms.
In 1833, Isaac decided that the two most musically talented of his children, Julius ( then aged 18 ) and Jacob ( 14 ) needed to leave the provincial musical scene of Cologne to study in Paris.
In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to a site on the St. Joseph River near the present-day city of Niles to open a mission to the Potawatomi Indians.
Reber, Clerk ; Isaac Newland and Samuel Reed, Justices of the Peace ; William Riser and Isaac Stroup, Constables. Bonds totaling 18, 000 dollars were issued for the extension of the Frisco Railway through Bruno Township.
The top 100 most important people list was further criticized for mixing world-famous names, such as Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Louis Pasteur, and Leonardo da Vinci, with numerous Americans largely unknown outside of the United States ( 18 Americans compared to 13 Italians and French, 11 English ).
On August 18, 2005, Dr. Isaac Njilah, a geologist at the University of Yaoundé, suggested that the natural dam of volcanic rock that keeps in the lake's waters could collapse in the near future.
John Isaac " Ike " Moore ( 7 February 1856 – 18 March 1937 ) was a member of the Arkansas Senate and Acting Governor of the U. S. state of Arkansas.
While Flanagin stayed in Confederate controlled territory, a new Union government under Isaac Murphy was inaugurated on April 18, 1864.
To this group belong the blessing of Noah ( Genesis 9: 25-27 ), of Isaac ( 27: 28-29 and 39-40 ), and of Jacob ( 49: 3-27 ); Jethro's congratulation of Israel ( Exodus 18: 10 ); the blessing of Aaron ( Numbers 6: 24-26 ) and of Balaam ( 23: 7-10, 18-24, 24: 5-9, 24: 17-24 ); Moses ' farewell ( Deuteronomy 33: 1 and following ); the psalms that begin with " Ashre " = " Blessed is ," etc., or contain this phrase, as Psalms 1, 41, 84: 5 and following, 84: 13, 112, 119, 128.
Joseph Hart ( 219 ); William Gadsby ( 173 ); Isaac Watts ( 145 ) John Berridge ( 72 ); John Newton ( 63 ) John Kent ( 51 ); Charles Wesley ( 41 ); Thomas Kelly ( 34 ); Samuel Medley ( 31 ); Anne Steele ( 27 ); Augustus M. Toplady ( 24 ); Richard Burnham ( 22 ); Henry Fowler ( 20 ); William Cowper ( 18 ); Joseph Swain ( 18 ); Daniel Herbert ( 12 ); Benjamin Beddome ( 10 ); John Fawcett ( 10 ); William Hammond ( 10 ); John Stevens ( 9 ); John Adams ( 9 ); Phillip Doddridge ( 8 ); John Cennick ( 6 ).
On arriving at the fort on 18 May, the British briefly exchanged fire before Forster parleyed with Bedel's successor, Major Isaac Butterfield, to request his surrender and warn him of the consequences should Indian warriors be committed to battle.
His son, James Isaac Christiancy ( 1844-December 18, 1899 ), was First Lieutenant, United States Army.
Isaac Jogues ( January 10, 1607 – October 18, 1646 ) was a Jesuit priest, missionary, and martyr who traveled and worked among the native populations in North America The Huron Indians.
In 1836, Combe stood for the chair of Logic at Edinburgh, against two other candidates, Sir William Hamilton and Isaac Taylor ; Hamilton won with 18 votes, against 14 for Taylor.
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