Cosmas Of Prague the first Bohemian historian, was born in 1045. In 1086 he was made canon of the Prague chapter; in 1099 he received holy orders, and he died October 21, 1125. When already advanced in years he set himself to write a history of Bohemia. He completed the Chronica Boemorum between 1119 and 1125. The first book reaches from the earliest times to the year 1038; the second to 1092; the third to 1125. The Chronica was published by Freher in Script. rerum Bohemicarum (Hanover, 1602, 1607, 1620); Menke, Script. Rerum Germanicarum (Leipsic, 1728); Pelzl et Dobrowsky, Script. rerum Bohemicarum (Prague, 1783); Kopke in Monum. Germ.; Migne, Patrol. Lat. 166; Emler et Tomek, Fontes rerum Bohemicarum (ibid. 1874), 2:1 sq. It was continued by some anonymous writers, under the title Continuatores Cosmoe. See Borowy in Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchen-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)
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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