Bruganza, Gaetano an Italian theologian and scholar, was born at Mantua in 1732. He taught rhetoric and classics in several colleges, and philosophy at Perugia. Being a Jesuit, he retired to his native place during the time of the suppression of his order, and devoted himself to the performance of literary labor and of his priestly functions. He died about 1800. He wrote, De Modo Conscribendo Inscriptiones (Mantua, 1779): — La Poesia in Aiuto alla Prosa (ibid. 1781). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.
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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