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See also:BOCHART, See also:SAMUEL (1599-1667) , See also:French See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Rouen on the 3oth of May 1599. He was for many years a pastor of a See also:Protestant 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 at See also:Caen, and became See also:tutor to See also:Wentworth See also:Dillon, See also:earl of See also:Roscommon. In 1646 he published his Phaleg and Chanaan (Caen, 1646 and 1651), the two parts of his Geographia Sacra. His Hierozoicon, which treats of the animals of Scripture, was printed in See also:London (2 vols., 1663). In 1652 See also:Christina of See also:Sweden invited him to See also:Stockholm, where he studied the Arabian See also:manuscripts in the See also:queen's See also:possession. He was accompanied by See also:Pierre See also:Daniel See also:Huet, afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Avranches. On his. return to Caen he was received into the See also:academy of that See also:city. Bochart was a See also:man of profound erudition; he possessed a thorough knowledge of the See also:principal See also:Oriental See also:languages, including See also:Hebrew, See also:Syriac, Chaldaic and Arabic; and at an advanced See also:age he wished to learn Ethiopic. He was so absorbed in his favourite study, that he saw Phoenician and nothing but Phoenician in everything, even in See also:Celtic words, and hence the number of chimerical etymologies which swarm in his See also:works. He died at Caen on the 16th of May 1667.
A See also:complete edition of his works was published at See also:Leiden, under the See also:title of Sam. Bochart See also:Opera Omnia (1675, 2 vols. See also:folio; 4th ed., 3 vols., 1712).
An See also:Essay on the See also:Life and Writings of Samuel Bochart, by W. R. See also:Whittingham, appeared in 1829.
End of Article: BOCHART, SAMUEL (1599-1667)
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