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See also:PSALMANAZAR, See also:GEORGE (c. 1679–1763) , See also:French adventurer, was See also:born about 1679, probably in See also:Languedoc. According to his own See also:account he was sent in his seventh See also:year to a See also:free school taught by two Franciscan monks, after which he was educated in a Jesuit See also:college " in an archiepiscopal See also:city." On leaving college he became a private See also:tutor. He assumed personations in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to obtain See also:money, his first being that of a See also:pilgrim to See also:Rome. Afterwards he travelled through See also:Germany, See also:Brabant and See also:Flanders in the See also:character of a See also:Japanese convert. At See also:Liege he enlisted in the Dutch service, shortly after which he posed as an unconverted Japanese. At See also:Sluys he made the acquaintance of a Scottish See also:chaplain, by whom he was brought over to See also:England and introduced to the See also:bishop of See also:London. Having undergone See also:conversion to See also:Christianity, he was employed by the bishop to translate the 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 See also:catechism into what was supposed to be the Japanese See also:language. In 1704 he published a fictitious See also:Historical and See also:Geographical Description of See also:Formosa, and was shortly after-wards sent to See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. In 1707 he published See also:Dialogue between a Japanese and a Formosan. There also appeared, without date, An Inquiry into the Objections against George Psalmanazar of Formosa,' with George Psalmanazar's See also:Answer. His pretensions were from the beginning doubted by many, and when exposure was inevitable he made a full See also:confession. Throughout the See also:rest of his See also:life he exhibited, according to Dr See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, as reported by Mrs See also:Piozzi, " a piety, penitence, and virtue exceeding almost what we read as wonderful in the lives of the See also:saints." Psalmanazar published Essays on Scriptural Subjects (1753), contributed various articles to the See also:Ancient Universal See also:History, and completed See also:Palmer's History of See also:Printing. He died in London on the 3rd of May 1763. His See also:memoirs appeared in 1764 under the See also:title, Memoirs of ... commonly known by the name of George
Psalmanazar, but do not disclose his real name or the See also:place of his See also:birth.
End of Article: PSALMANAZAR, GEORGE (c. 1679–1763)
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