Samuel Bochart
1599–1667
French biblical scholar. Pastor of a Protestant church in Caen. Published Geographia Sacra (1646 and 1651) and Hierozoicon (1663), which treats of the animals of Scripture. His works were published together as Bochart’s Opera omnia in 1675.
Sources
DBF
EB.
Bibliography
DBF: Dictionnaire de biographie Française. Under the direction of J. Balteau et al. 21 vols. and 4 fascicules of vol. 22 (A–Leyris d’Esponchès) to date. Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané. 1933–.
EB: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11.
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