Marsollier, Jacques a French ecclesiastical writer, was born at Paris in 1647, and died at Uzbs in 1724. He is the author of, Histoire de l'Origine des Dixmes, des Ben- efices et des Autres Biens Temporels de l'Eglise (Lyonas, 1689): — Histoire de l'Inquisition et de son Origine (Cologne, 1693; based upon Limborch's Historia Inquisitionis): — Hlistoire du Ministere du Cardinal de Ximenez (Toulouse, 1693; Paris, 1739): — Histoire de Henri VII, Roi
d'Angleterre (1697): — La Vie de St. Frangois de Sales (1700): — Apologie ou Justification d'Erasme (1713): — Entretiens sur les Devoirs de la Vie Civile, et sur Plusieurs Points de la Vie Morale Chretienne (1714). See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:696, 716, 870. (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