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NOSTRADAMUS (1503-1566)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 822 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NOSTRADAMUS (1503-1566)  , the assumed name of See also:MICHEL DE NOTREDAME, a See also:French astrologer, of Jewish origin, who was See also:born at St Remi in See also:Provence on the 13th of See also:December 1503 . After studying humanity and See also:philosophy at See also:Avignon, he took the degree of See also:doctor of See also:medicine at See also:Montpellier in 1529 . He settled at See also:Agen, and in 1544 established himself at See also:Salon near de' See also:Medici; and in 1558 he published an enlarged edition with a See also:dedication to the See also:king . The seeming fulfilment of some of his predictions increased his See also:influence, and See also:Charles IX. named him physician in See also:ordinary . He died on the and of See also:July 1566 . The Centuries of See also:Nostradamus have been frequently reprinted, and have been the subject of many commentaries . In 1781 they were condemned by the papal See also:court, being supposed to contain a prediction of the fall of the papacy . Nostradamus was the author of a number of smaller See also:treatises . See Bareste, Nostradamus (See also:Paris, 184o) .

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