Isaac Casaubon
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Isaac Casaubon was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England.
Isaac Casaubon from NPG
Joseph Justus Scaliger
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Joseph Justus Scaliger was a Franco-Italian Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylon
Isaac Casaubon
…his money. More importantly, he met Richard Thomson ("Dutch" Thomson), fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and through Thomson came to the attention of Joseph Scaliger. Scaliger and Casaubon first exchanged letters in 1594. They never met, but kept up a lengthy correspondence that shows their growing admiration, esteem…
Scaliger by Jan Cornelisz. van 't Woudt (1608)
Josephus Justus Scaliger, painted by Paulus Merula, 3rd librarian of Leiden University, 1597
Scaliger, in a print by Gérard Edelinck (late 18th century)
Scaliger's home in Leiden, Breestraat 113, in 2010.