See also:DRUSIUS (or See also:VAN DEN DRIESCHE), JOHANNES (1550-1616)
, See also:Protestant divine, distinguished specially as an Orientalist and exegete, was See also:born at Oudenarde, in See also:Flanders, on the 28th of See also: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 and Latin at See also:Ghent, and See also:philosophy at See also:Louvain; but his See also:father having been outlawed for his See also:religion, and deprived of his See also:estate, retired to See also:England, where the son followed him in 1567
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He found an admirable teacher of See also:Hebrew in See also: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
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In 1572 he became See also:professor of See also:Oriental See also: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
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Upon the pacification of Ghent (1576) he returned with his father to their own See also:country, and was appointed professor of Oriental languages at See also:Leiden in the following See also:year
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In i585 he removed to See also:Friesland, and was admitted professor of Hebrew in the university of See also: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 See also:honour till his See also:death, which happened in See also:February 1616
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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
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His See also:works prove him to have been well skilled in Hebrew and in Jewish antiquities; and in 1600 the states-See also:general employed him, at a See also:salary of 400 florins a year, to write notes on the most difficult passages in the Old Testament; but this See also:work was not published until after his death
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As the friend of
See also:Arminius, he, was charged by the orthodox and dominant party with unfairness in the See also:execution of the task, and the last sixteen years of his See also:life were therefore somewhat embittered by controversy
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He carried on an extensive See also: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
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He had a son, See also:John, who died in England at the See also:age of twenty-one, and was accounted a See also:prodigy of learning
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He had mastered Hebrew at the age of nine, and See also:Scaliger said that he was a better Hebrew See also:scholar than his father
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He wrote a large number of letters in Hebrew, besides notes on the See also:Proverbs of See also:Solomon and other works
.
Paquot states the number of the printed works and See also:treatises of the See also:elder See also:Drusius at See also:forty-eight, and of the unprinted at upwards of twenty
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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, 1698, in 9 vols. See also:folio, or See also:London, 166o, in 10 vols. folio)
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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 (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)
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