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.
Isaac Casaubon
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Isaac Casaubon was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England.
Joseph Justus Scaliger
…barrier to their claims. Muret, in the latter part of his life, professed the strictest orthodoxy; Lipsius had been reconciled to the Church of Rome; Isaac Casaubon was supposed to be wavering, but Scaliger was known to be an irreconcilable Protestant. As long as his intellectual supremacy was unquestioned, the…
Isaac Casaubon from NPG