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
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.
Julius Caesar Scaliger
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Julius Caesar Scaliger, or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France. He employed the techniques and discoveries of Renaissance hu
Joseph Justus Scaliger
…history. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in the Netherlands. In 1540, Scaliger was born in Agen, France, to Italian scholar and physician Julius Caesar Scaliger and his wife, Andiette de Roques Lobejac. His only formal education was three years of study at the College of Guienne in Bordeaux, which ended in 1555…
Julius Caesar Scaliger
De subtilitate, 1612