Due, Fronton Du (Latin form FRONTO DUCAEUS), a French Roman Catholic theologian, was born at Bordeaux in 1558, and entered the order of Jesuits at an early age. In 1604 he was made librarian of the college of Clermont, in Paris, in which office he spent the rest of his life, devoted to literature, especially Patristics. He died at Paris, September 25, 1624. Among his numerous publications are Opuscula Gregorii Nysseni (Ingolstadt, 1596, 8vo); Laudatio Sanctorum Martyrum (Paris, 1606, 4to); S. Joannis Chrysostomi Oplera Omnia (Paris, 1609-1624, 6 volumes, fol.), a work which is very creditable to the editor's erudition and industry; Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum, seu Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum (Paris, 1624, 2 volumes, fol.); Nicephori Callisti Ecclesiasticce Historice libri 18 (Paris, 1630, 2 volumes fol., posthumous). See Dupin, Ecclesiastical Writers, cent. 17; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale; Niceron, Memoires, 38:103.
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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