Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

JUNIUS, FRANZ (in French, Francois du...

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 559 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

JUNIUS, See also:FRANZ (in See also:French, See also:Francois du Jon) , the name of two Huguenot scholars. (I) FRANZ JUNIUS (1545-1602) was See also:born at See also:Bourges in See also:France on the 1st of May 1545. He had studied See also:law for two years under See also:Hugo Donellus (1527–1591) when he was given a See also:place in the See also:retinue of the French See also:ambassador to See also:Constantinople, but before he reached See also:Lyons the ambassador had departed. Junius found ample See also:consolation in the opportunities for study at the gymnasium at Lyons. A religious tumult warned him back to Bourges, where he was cured of certain rationalistic principles that he had imbibed at Lyons, and he determined to enter the reformed See also:church. He went in 1562 to study at See also:Geneva, where he was reduced to the direst poverty by the failure of remittances from See also:home, owing to See also:civil See also:war in France. He would accept only the barest sustenance from a humble friend who had himself been a protege of Junius's See also:family at Bourges, and his See also:health was permanently injured. The See also:long-expected remittance from home was closely followed by the See also:news of the brutal See also:murder of his See also:father by a See also:Catholic fanatic at See also:Issoudun; and Junius resolved to remain at Geneva, where his reputation enabled him to live by teaching. In 1565, however, he was appointed See also:minister of the Walloon church at See also:Antwerp. His See also:foreign See also:birth excluded him from the privileges of the native reformed pastors, and exposed him to persecution. Several times he barely escaped See also:arrest, and finally, after spending six months in See also:preaching at See also:Limburg, he was forced to retire to See also:Heidelberg in 1567. There he was welcomed by the elector See also:Frederick II., and temporarily settled in See also:charge of the Walloon church at Schonau; but in 1568 his See also:patron sent him as See also:chaplain with See also:Prince See also:William of See also:Orange in his unfortunate expedition to the See also:Netherlands.

Junius escaped as soon as he could from that See also:

post, and returning to his church remained there till 1573. From 1573 till 1578 he was at Heidelberg, assisting See also:Emmanuel Tremellius (1510-1580), whose daughter he married, in his Latin version of the Old Testament (See also:Frankfort, 1579); in 1581 he was appointed to the See also:chair of divinity at Heidelberg. Thence he was taken to France by the See also:duke of See also:Bouillon, and after an interview with See also:Henry IV. was sent again to See also:Germany on a See also:mission. As he was returning to France he was named See also:professor of See also:theology at See also:Leiden, where he died on the 13th of See also:October 1602.and composed many exegetical See also:works. He is best known from his own edition of the Latin Old Testament, slightly altered from the former See also:joint edition, and with a version of the New Testament added (Geneva, 1590; See also:Hanover, 1624). The See also:Opera Theologira Francisci Junii Biturigis were published at Geneva (2 vols., 1613), to which is prefixed his autobiography, written about 1592 (new ed., edited by See also:Abraham Kuypers,1882 seq.). The autobiography had been published at Leiden (1595), and is reprinted in the Miscellanea Groningana, vol. i., along with a See also:list of the author's other writings. (2) FRANZ JUNIUS (1589–1677), son of the above, was born at Heidelberg, and brought up at Leiden. His See also:attention was diverted from military to theological studies by the See also:peace of 1609 between See also:Spain and the Netherlands. In 1617 he became pastor at Hillegondsberg, but in 162o went to See also:England, where he became librarian to See also:Thomas See also:Howard, See also:earl of See also:Arundel, and See also:tutor to his son. He remained in England See also:thirty years, devoting himself to the study of Anglo-Saxon, and afterwards of the cognate old See also:Teutonic See also:languages. His See also:work, intrinsically valuable, is important as having aroused See also:interest in a frequently neglected subject.

In 1651 he returned to See also:

Holland; and for two years lived in See also:Friesland in See also:order to study the old See also:dialect. In 1675 he returned to England, and during the next See also:year resided in See also:Oxford; in 1677 he went to live at See also:Windsor with his See also:nephew, See also:Isaac See also:Vossius, in whose See also:house he died on the 19th of See also:November 1677. He was buried at Windsor in St See also:George's See also:Chapel. He was pre-eminently a student. He published De picture veterum (1637) (in See also:English by the author, 1638; enlarged and improved edition, edited by J. G. See also:Graevius, who prefixed a See also:life of Junius, with a See also:catalogue of architects, painters, &c., and their works, See also:Rotterdam, 1694) ; Observationes in Willerami Abbatis francicam paraphrasin cantici canticorum (See also:Amsterdam, 1655); Annotationes in harmoniam latino-francicam quatuor evangelistarum, latine a Tatiano confectam (Amsterdam, 1655) ; Caedmonis monachi paraphrasis poetica geneseos (Amsterdam, 1655) (see See also:criticism under CAEDMON) ; Quatuor D.N.I.C. evangeliorum versiones perantiquae duae, gothica scilicet et anglo-saxonica (See also:Dort, a vols., 1665) (the See also:Gothic version in this See also:book Junius transcribed from the See also:Silver Codex of See also:Ulfilas; the Anglo-Saxon version is from an edition by Thomas See also:Marshall, whose notes to both versions are given, and a Gothic glossary by Junius) ; Etymologicum anglicanum, edited by See also:Edward See also:Lye, and preceded by a life of Junius and George See also:Hickes's Anglo-Saxon See also:grammar (Oxford, 1743) (its results require careful verification in the See also:light of See also:modern See also:research). His See also:rich collection of See also:ancient See also:MSS., edited and annotated by him, Junius bequeathed to the university of Oxford. Graevius gives a Iist of them; the most important are a version of the Ormulum, the version of Caedmon, and 9 volumes containing Glossarium v. linguarum septentrionalium.

End of Article: JUNIUS, FRANZ (in French, Francois du Jon)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
JUNIUS
[next]
JUNK