Samuel Bochart (30 May 1599 - 16 May 1667) was a French scholar born in Rouen. May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... Events Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is replaced by his brother Charles IX of Sweden. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... // Events January 20 - Poland cedes Kyiv, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Deluge, and Poland lost its status as a Central European power. ... Location within France Rouen Cathedral The entrance to Rouen Cathedral Abbey church of Saint-Ouen, (chevet) in Rouen Rouen, medieval house Rouen (pronounced in French, sometimes also ) is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France, and presently the capital of the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) région. ...

He was for many years a pastor of a Protestant church at Caen, and also studied in Oxford, becoming tutor to Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon. In 1646 he published his Phaleg and Chanaan (Caen, 1646 and 1651), the two parts of his Geographia Sacra. His Hierozoicon, a zoological treatise on the animals of the Bible, was printed in London (2 vols., 1663). In 1652 Christina of Sweden invited him to Stockholm, where he studied the Arabic manuscripts in the queen's possession. He was accompanied by Pierre Daniel Huet, afterwards Bishop of Avranches. On his return to Caen he was received into the academy of that city. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Location within France Hôtel dEscoville, 16th century, Caen Anonymous pen-and-ink birds-eye view of the fortifications of Caen (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris) Town Hall of Caen Caens tramway is in fact a modern guided-bus system. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon (1633–1685) References Johnson, Samuel. ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Christina (Kristina) (December 8, 1626 – April 19, 1689), later known as Maria Christina Alexandra and sometimes Count Dohna, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. ... The Old town in Stockholm from the air ▶(?) is the capital of Sweden, located on the east coast at the entrance of lake Mälaren. ... Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Pierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721) was a French churchman and scholar, Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches. ...

Bochart was a man of profound erudition; he possessed a thorough knowledge of the principal Oriental languages, including Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldean and Arabic; and at an advanced age he wished to learn Ethiopic. He was so absorbed in his favorite study, that he saw Phoenician and nothing but Phoenician in everything, even in Celtic words, and hence the number of chimerical etymologies which swarm in his works. He died of apoplexy in the academy of Caen during an impassioned debate with Pierre Daniel Huet on the translation of a passage of Origen related to transubstantiation. There are a wide variety of languages spoken thoughout Asia, comprising a number of families and unrelated isolate languages. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than 7 million people, mainly in Israel, the West Bank, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. ... Chaldean can refer to an ancient people of lower Mesopotamia and their culture, or a contemporary Christian people living mostly in Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Michigan, as well as a relativley widespread diaspora concentrated in the western world. ... Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... The Geez language (or Giiz language) is an ancient language that developed in the Ethiopian Highlands of the Horn of Africa as the language of the peasantry. ... The Celtic languages are the languages descended from Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, spoken by ancient and modern Celts alike. ... Etymology is the study of the origins of words. ... Location within France Hôtel dEscoville, 16th century, Caen Anonymous pen-and-ink birds-eye view of the fortifications of Caen (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris) Town Hall of Caen Caens tramway is in fact a modern guided-bus system. ... Pierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721) was a French churchman and scholar, Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches. ... Origen ( 182– 251) was a Christian scholar and theologian and one of the most distinguished of the Fathers of the early Christian Church. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ...

Works include:

• a dictionary of Arabic
• Geographia Sacra, sur les premiers âges du monde, 1652
• De consiliandis in religionis negotio protestantibus, 1662
• Hierozoïcon, 1663

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