Líempereur, Constantine a celebrated Dutch Orientalist, was born at Oppyck, in the Netherlands, about 1570. He was professor of Hebrew at Harderwyk until 1627, when he was called to the University of Leyden as professor of Hebrew, and some time after was made professor of theology in that high school. He died in 1648. L'Empereur edited the Commentary of Aben-Ezra and Mos. Alschech on Isa 52:13-53:12, with notes (Leyd. 1633); and the Paraphrase of Joseph ben-Jachja on Daniel, with translation and notes (Amsterd. 1633), also the Mishnic tracts Baba Kama and Middoth (Leyd. 1737, 4to). He wrote himself De Dignitate et Utilitate Linguae Hebraics (1627, 8vo): — Clavis Talinudica, complectens formulas, loca, dialectica et logica priscorume Judaeorum (Leyden, 1634, 4to): — De legg. hebr. forens. (Leyd. 1637, 4to); and Disputationes theologicae (Leyd. 1648, 8vo). See Kitto, Cyclop. Bibl. Lit. s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen. 30:642; Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 1:245 sq.
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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