Méric Casaubon

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Florence Estienne Méric Casaubon (born August 14, 1599 in Geneva , † July 14, 1671 in Canterbury ), son of Isaac Casaubon , was an English scholar . Although encyclopedias (such as the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911 ) usually emphasize the first name "Méric", he himself did not emphasize that name.

Life

Méric Casaubon was born in Geneva on August 14, 1599 . At a young age he went to England to see his father. There he attended Eton College and Oxford . His defense of his father against the attacks of staunch Catholics ( Pietas contra maledicos patrii Nominis et Religionis Hostes , 1621 ) secured him the favor of Jacob I , who gave him a benefice in Canterbury Cathedral .

During the English Civil War he lived quite withdrawn. After its end, he refused to recognize the authority of Oliver Cromwell , who commissioned him regardless of this to write an impartial story about the events of the epoch .

Despite many inducements, he turned down the post of Swedish university examiner offered by Queen Christina . After the Stuart Restoration he received his benefice again. He devoted the rest of his life to literary work until he died on July 14, 1671 in Canterbury.

Works

  • Pietas contra maledicos patrii Nominis et Religionis Hostes ( 1621 )
  • Vindicatio Patris adversus Impostores ( 1624 )
  • Marcus Aurelies Antoninus the Roman Emperor, his Meditations Concerning Himself ( 1634 )
  • A treatise of use and custome ( 1638 )
  • De quatuor linguis commentationis, pars prior: quae, de lingua Hebraica: et, de lingua Saxonica ( 1650 )
  • A Treatise Concerning Enthusiasme ( 1656 )
  • A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits ( 1659 )
  • Of the Necessity of Reformation ( 1664 )
  • On Credulity and Incredulity in Things natural, civil and divine ( 1668 )
  • A Letter of Meric Casaubon to Peter Du Moulin Concerning Natural Experimental Philosophy ( 1669 )
  • Generall Learning: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on the Formation of the General Scholar (edited by Richard Serjeantson, 1999 )
personal data
SURNAME Casaubon, Méric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casaubon, Florence Estienne Méric (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English author and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1671
Place of death Canterbury