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HUGH BROUGHTON (1549-1612)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 655 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGH See also:BROUGHTON (1549-1612)  , See also:English See also:scholar and divine, was See also:born at Owlbury, See also:Bishop's See also:Castle, See also:Shropshire, in 1549• He was educated by See also:Bernard See also:Gilpin at See also:Houghton-le-See also:Spring and at See also:Cambridge, where he became See also:fellow of St See also:John's and then of See also:Christ's, and took orders . Here he laid the See also:foundation of the See also:Hebrew scholarship for which he was afterwards so distinguished . From Cambridge he went to See also:London, where his eloquence gained him many and powerful See also:friends . In 1588 he published his first See also:work, " a little See also:book of See also:great pains," entitled A Concent of Scripture . This work, dealing with biblical See also:chronology and textual See also:criticism, was attacked at both See also:universities, and the author was obliged to defend it in a See also:series of lectures . In 1589 he went to See also:Germany, where he frequently engaged in discussions both with Romanists and with the learned See also:Jews whom he met at See also:Frankfort and elsewhere. in 1591 he returned to See also:England, but his Puritan leanings incurred the hostility of See also:Whitgift . Accordingly in 1J92 he once more went abroad, and cultivated the acquaintance of the See also:principal scholars of See also:Europe, including Scaligeri and See also:Rabbi See also:Elias . Such was the esteem in which he was held, even by his opponents, that he might have had a See also:cardinal's See also:hat if he had been willing to See also:change his faith . In 1599 he published his " Explication " of the See also:article " He descended into See also:hell," is which he maintained that Hades means simply the See also:abode of departed See also:spirits, not the See also:place of torment . On the See also:accession of See also:James he returned to England; but not being engaged to co-operate in the new See also:translation of the See also:Bible (though he had for some years planned a similar work), he retired to Middleburg in See also:Holland, where he preached to the English See also:congregation . In 1611 he returned to England, where he died on the 4th of See also:August 1612 . Some of his See also:works were collected and published in a large See also:folio See also:volume in 1662, with a See also:sketch of his See also:life by John See also:Lightfoot, but many of his theological See also:MSS. remain still unedited in the See also:British Museum .

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