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SAMUEL BOCHART (1599-1667)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 106 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:BOCHART (1599-1667)  , See also:French See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Rouen on the 3oth of May 1599 . He was for many years a pastor of a See also:Protestant See also:church at See also:Caen, and became See also:tutor to See also:Wentworth See also:Dillon, See also:earl of See also:Roscommon . In 1646 he published his Phaleg and Chanaan (Caen, 1646 and 1651), the two parts of his Geographia Sacra . His Hierozoicon, which treats of the animals of Scripture, was printed in See also:London (2 vols., 1663) . In 1652 See also:Christina of See also:Sweden invited him to See also:Stockholm, where he studied the Arabian See also:manuscripts in the See also:queen's See also:possession . He was accompanied by See also:Pierre See also:Daniel See also:Huet, afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Avranches . On his. return to Caen he was received into the See also:academy of that See also:city . See also:Bochart was a See also:man of profound erudition; he possessed a thorough knowledge of the See also:principal See also:Oriental See also:languages, including See also:Hebrew, See also:Syriac, Chaldaic and Arabic; and at an advanced See also:age he wished to learn Ethiopic . He was so absorbed in his favourite study, that he saw Phoenician and nothing but Phoenician in everything, even in See also:Celtic words, and hence the number of chimerical etymologies which swarm in his See also:works . He died at Caen on the 16th of May 1667 . A See also:complete edition of his works was published at See also:Leiden, under the See also:title of Sam . Bochart See also:Opera Omnia (1675, 2 vols. See also:folio; 4th ed., 3 vols., 1712) .

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Essay on the See also:Life and Writings of See also:Samuel Bochart, by W . R . See also:Whittingham, appeared in 1829 .

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