European classical scholar and philologist (1559–1614)
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Isaac Casaubon
Born
18 February 1559 Geneva, then Republic of Geneva
Died
1 July 1614 (aged 55) London, England
Occupation
Classical scholar, philologist
Alma mater
University of Geneva
Isaac Casaubon (/kəˈsɔːbən/;[1]French:[kazobɔ̃]; 18 February 1559 – 1 July 1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England.
His son Méric Casaubon was also a classical scholar.
^"Casaubon, Isaac". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
IsaacCasaubon (/kəˈsɔːbən/; French: [kazobɔ̃]; 18 February 1559 – 1 July 1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later...
Casaubon /kəˈsɔːbən/ is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: IsaacCasaubon (1559–1614), French classical scholar Méric Casaubon (1599–1671)...
around 1469. The first printed edition was published in 1516 in Venice. IsaacCasaubon, classical scholar and editor of Greek texts, provided the first critical...
author of the Historia Augusta was disparaging but later authors such as IsaacCasaubon were more respectful. Animula vagula blandula Hospes comesque corporis...
publication of the Deipnosophistae in 1612 by the Classical scholar IsaacCasaubon. Browne was also the author of a Latin essay on Athenaeus. By the nineteenth...
large number of historical illustrations. Aeneas was considered by IsaacCasaubon to have been a contemporary of Xenophon and identical with the Arcadian...
for example, the work of the 3rd-century philosopher Porphyry, of IsaacCasaubon (1559–1614), and of Richard Reitzenstein (1861–1931), all of whom succeeded...
mythological figure of the satyr. In the 17th century, philologist IsaacCasaubon was the first to dispute the etymology of satire from satyr, contrary...
those of IsaacCasaubon's edition. ὁ τῆς Ἰωλκοῦ τόπος, Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.438. Page numbers refer to those of IsaacCasaubon's edition. Strabo...
His daughter was married to IsaacCasaubon. His son Paul (born 1567) assumed control of the presses in Geneva with Casaubon but he fled to Paris from the...
vocabulary used with that of the Corpus Hermeticum (which had been proven by IsaacCasaubon in 1614 to date only from the 2nd or 3rd century AD), he affirms that...
century. The concept, however, was first proposed by another Calvinist, IsaacCasaubon, in 1614 as a way of explaining the absence of certain doctrines in...
al-ʿĀmilī, founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (d. 1621) 1559 – IsaacCasaubon, Swiss philologist and scholar (d. 1614) 1589 – Henry Vane the Elder...
Grafton and Joanna Weinberg, “I have always loved the Holy Tongue”: IsaacCasaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Cambridge:...
Translation of Seneca the Younger's Troas See 1559 in poetry February 18 – IsaacCasaubon, Genevan classicist and church historian (died 1614) October 12 – Jacques...
century following its publication in 1612 by the Classical scholar IsaacCasaubon. Smith, William (1867), "Adrantus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary...
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer and educator (b. 1535) 1614 – IsaacCasaubon, French philologist and scholar (b. 1559) 1622 – William Parker, 4th...
rediscovered. Comprehensive versions of author's works were published by IsaacCasaubon, Joseph Scaliger and others. Nevertheless, despite the careful work...
biblical flood. In the early seventeenth century, the classical scholar IsaacCasaubon (1559–1614) demonstrated that some of the Greek texts betrayed too recent...
to scour European monasteries for lost ancient writings. In 1614, IsaacCasaubon, a Swiss philologist, analyzed the Greek Hermetic texts for linguistic...
with certainty?" The very forefathers of text criticism, including IsaacCasaubon (1559–1614), Richard Bentley (1662–1742) and Friedrich August Wolf (1759–1824)...
those of IsaacCasaubon's edition. Serv. ad Aen. 1.550, 5.30. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xiii. p.608. Page numbers refer to those of IsaacCasaubon's edition...
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