Méric Casaubon

Florence Estienne Méric Casaubon ( born August 14, 1599 Geneva, † July 14, 1671 in Canterbury ), son of Isaac Casaubon, was an English scholar. Although encyclopedias (such as the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911) usually emphasize the name " Méric " he stressed even that name is not much.

Life

Méric Casaubon was born on August 14, 1599 in Geneva. At an early age he went to England to his father. He attended Eton College and Oxford. His defense of his father against the attacks staunch Catholics ( Pietas contra maledicos patrii nominis et Religionis Hostes, 1621) secured him the favor of James I., who gave him a prebend in the cathedral of Canterbury.

During the English Civil War, he lived quite withdrawn. After the end of which he refused to accept the command of Oliver Cromwell, who commissioned him, nevertheless, to write an impartial history of the events of the era.

Despite many incentives he refused the post of auditor of the Swedish universities, which was offered him by Queen Christina. After the Stuart Restoration he received his benefice again. The rest of his life he devoted himself to literary work, until he died in Canterbury on July 14, 1671.

Works

• Pietas contra maledicos patrii nominis et Religionis Hostes ( 1621)
• Vindicatio Patris adversus Impostores ( 1624)
• Marcus Aurelie Antoninus the Roman Emperor, his Meditations Concerning Himself ( 1634)
• A treatise of use and custome ( 1638)
• De quatuor linguis commentationis, pars prior: quae de lingua Hebraica: et, de lingua Saxonica (1650)
• A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasme ( 1656)
• A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years in between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits (1659 )
• Of the Necessity of Reformation ( 1664)
• On credulity and Incredulity in Things natural, civil and divine (1668 )
• A Letter of Meric Casaubon to Peter du Moulin Concerning Natural Experimental Philosophy ( 1669)
• Generall Learning: A Seventeenth - Century Treatise on the Formation of the General Scholar ( herausgegeb. v. Richard Serjeantson, 1999)

• Author
• English
• Born in 1599
• Died in 1671
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