See also: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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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)
.
An See also: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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