Agrippa Von Nettersheim, Heinrich Cornelius, a German philosopher, theologian, and chemist, was born in Cologne, Sept. 14, 1486. Having been a disturber of the peace in the South of France, he fled to Paris, where his public discourses gained for him a professorship of theology at Dole. Accused of heresy and magic, he fled to England in 1510, and afterwards returned to Cologne and became secretary to Maximilian. He subsequently studied and practiced medicine, and was an ardent student of alchemy and the other occult sciences. His work De Jncertitudine et Vanitate Scienfiarum (Paris, 1531) is a satire on the state of knowledge at the period in which he lived. His death occurred at Grenoble, Feb. 18,1538.
The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature was edited by John McClintock and James Strong. It contains nearly 50,000 articles pertaining to Biblical and other religious literature, people, creeds, etc. It is a fantastic research tool for broad Christian study.
John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More