See also:

• DRUSIUS (or VAN DEN DRIESCHE), JOHANNES (1550-1616)

DRUSIUS (or See also:

• VAN

VAN DEN DRIESCHE), JOHANNES (1550-1616)  , See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant divine, distinguished specially as an Orientalist and exegete, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Oudenarde, in See also:

• FLANDERS (Flem. Vlaanderen)

Flanders, on the 28th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1550 . Being designed for the 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, he studied See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and Latin at See also:

• GHENT (Flem. Gent, Fr. Gand)

Ghent, and See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at See also:

• LOUVAIN (Flem. Leuven)

Louvain; but his See also:

• FATHER

father having been outlawed for his See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion, and deprived of his See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate, retired to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, where the son followed him in 1567 . He found an admirable teacher of See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew in See also:

• CHEVALIER, ALBERT (1861– )
• CHEVALIER, MICHEL (1806-1879)
• CHEVALIER, ULYSSE (1841– )

Chevalier; the celebrated Orientalist, with whom he resided for some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time at See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge . In 1572 he became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages at See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford . Upon the pacification of Ghent (1576) he returned with his father to their own See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and was appointed professor of Oriental languages at See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden in the following See also:

• YEAR

year . In i585 he removed to See also:

• FRIESLAND, or VRIESLAND

Friesland, and was admitted professor of Hebrew in the university of See also:

• FRANEKER

Franeker, an See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office which he discharged with See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour till his See also:

• DEATH

death, which happened in See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1616 . He acquired so extended a reputation as a professor that his class was frequented by students from all the Protestant countries in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . His See also:

• WORKS

works prove him to have been well skilled in Hebrew and in Jewish antiquities; and in 1600 the states-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general employed him, at a See also:

• SALARY

salary of 400 florins a year, to write notes on the most difficult passages in the Old Testament; but this See also:

• WORK

work was not published until after his death . As the friend of See also:

• ARMINIUS
• ARMINIUS, JACOBUS (1560-1609)

Arminius, he, was charged by the orthodox and dominant party with unfairness in the See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution of the task, and the last sixteen years of his See also:

• LIFE

life were therefore somewhat embittered by controversy . He carried on an extensive See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence with the learned in different countries; for, besides letters in Hebrew, Greek and other languages, there were found amongst his papers upwards of 2000 written in Latin . He had a son, See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John, who died in England at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty-one, and was accounted a See also:

• PRODIGY

prodigy of learning . He had mastered Hebrew at the age of nine, and See also:

• SCALIGER

Scaliger said that he was a better Hebrew See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar than his father .

He wrote a large number of letters in Hebrew, besides notes on the See also:

• PROVERBS, BOOK OF (Heb. Mishle Slzelomoh, " Proverbs of Solomon," abridged by the later Jews to Mishle; Septuagint, irapotpiai or II. EaX.; Lat. Vulg. Parabolae sal. and Liber proverbiorum)

Proverbs of See also:

• SOLOMON, ODES OF
• SOLOMON, PSALMS OF

Solomon and other works . Paquot states the number of the printed works and See also:

• TREATISES

treatises of the See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder See also:

• DRUSIUS (or VAN DEN DRIESCHE), JOHANNES (1550-1616)

Drusius at See also:

• FORTY

forty-eight, and of the unprinted at upwards of twenty . Of the former more than two-thirds were inserted in the collection entitled Critici sacri, sive annotata doctissimorum virorum in Fetus et Novum Testamentum (See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam, 1698, in 9 vols. See also:

• FOLIO (properly the ablative case of the Lat. folium, leaf, but also frequently an adaptation of the Ital. foglio)

folio, or See also:

• LONDON

London, 166o, in 10 vols. folio) . Amongst the works of Drusius not to be found in this collection may be mentioned—(1) Alphabetum Hebraicum vetus (1584, 4to); (2) Tabulae in grammaticam Chaldaicam ad usum juventutis (16o2, 8vo); (3) An edition of Sulpicius See also:

• SEVERUS
• SEVERUS, SULPICIUS (c. 363–c. 425)

Severus (Franker, 1807, 121110) ; (4) Opuscula quae ad grammaticam spectant omnia (1609, 4to) ; (5) Lacrymae in obitum J . Scaligeri (1609, 4to) ; and (6) Grammatica linguae sanctae nova (1612, 4t0) .