Hambraeus, Jonas preacher to the Swedish ambassador at Paris, and professor of Oriental languages there, was born in 1588. He studied at Upsala, Greifswald, and Rostock, was professor of Hebrew at Upsala, accompanied some noblemen on their travels in 1626, and settled at Paris as professor of Oriental languages. In 1635 he became preacher to Hugo Grotius, and died in 1665. He wrote, Disp. de Accentibus Hebraeis (Greifswald, 1616): — Institutio Hebraica Compendiosa (Rostock, 1618): — Loci Theologici Latino- Suedici (Stockholm, 1622). He translated into Swedish the Ethica Christiana of Dareus (Rostock, 1618); also Erasmus's Παράκληθις ad Christianos Omnes, ut Libenter Audiant et Legant Verbum Dei (1620). See Hambraus, Disp. I. et II. de Meritis ac Fatis Jonae Hambraei (Upsala, 1743, 1749); Moller, Cimbria Litterata; Stiernmann, Bibl. Suiogothica, page 313; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-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