Henry Stubbe

Henry Stubbe or Stubbes (* 1632 in Lincolnshire , † 1676 in Bath ) was an English scholar and author.

Life and accomplishments

Henry Stubbe was a versatile scholar and physician who supported Thomas Hobbes' philosophy at Oxford University , wrote a book on chocolate, which was still relatively unknown at the time, and a treatise on Islam .

According to Anthony Wood , Stubbe was one of the finest Latin and Greek scholars of his day, as well as a good mathematician and historian.

Works

Vindication of that Prudent and Honorable Knight Sir Henry Vane (1659)
A Light Shining Out Of Darkness (1659)
The Indian nectar, or, A discourse concerning chocolate (1662)
An Epistolary Discourse Concerning Phlebotomy and The Lord Bacons Relation of the Sweating-Sickness Examined (1671)
A Justification of the Present War against the United Netherlands (1672)
An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, and a Vindication of him and his Religion from the Calumnies of the Christians (1674?)

literature

PM Holt: A seventeenth-century defender of Islam: Henry Stubbe (1632–76) and his book . Dr Williams's Trust, London 1972, ( Friends of Dr. Williams's Library 26, ISSN 0305-3962 ).
James R. Jacob: Henry Stubbe, radical Protestantism and the early Enlightenment . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2002, ISBN 0-521-52016-9 .

Remarks

^ Henry Stubbe, MA, of Christ Church, Oxford: An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, with the life of Mahomet and a vindication of him and his religion from the calumnies of the Christians ... From a manuscript copied by Charles Hornby of Pipe Office, in 1705 "with some variations and additions" . Edited, with an introduction and appendix, by Hafiz Mahmud Khan Shairani. Luzac & Co., London 1911, (xxi, 247 pp.); also: Orientalia, Lahore 1954.

personal data
SURNAME	Stubbe, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stubbes, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1632
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lincolnshire
DATE OF DEATH	1676
Place of death	BATH

[1] Henry Stubbe, MA, of Christ Church, Oxford: An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, with the life of Mahomet and a vindication of him and his religion from the calumnies of the Christians ... From a manuscript copied by Charles Hornby of Pipe Office, in 1705 "with some variations and additions" . Edited, with an introduction and appendix, by Hafiz Mahmud Khan Shairani. Luzac & Co., London 1911, (xxi, 247 pp.); also: Orientalia, Lahore 1954.