Quinquarboreus, Joannes (Or Jean Cinqarbre), a learned Frenchman, was a native of Aurillac, in Auvergne. In 1554 he was made regius professor of the Hebrew language at Paris; in 1575 he was made dean of the faculty, and occupied this position until the year 1587, when he died. He wrote, Institutio Linguae Ebraicoe, cum Notis, etc. (Paris, 1610): — De Re Grammnatica Hebraica Opus (ibid. 1549, 1556, 1582; Accessit etiam Liber de Notis, i.e. Abbreviaturis Hebroeorumn [Venice, 1588, and Paris, 1609, cum Notis P. Vignolii]): — Notoe in Clenardi Grammaitica Hebraica (Paris, 1549, 1564). He also translated into Latin the Chaldee of Jonathan on Hosea, Joel, Amos (ibid. 1556 and 1563). See First. Bibliotheca Judaica, ii, 106; iii, 124; Steinschneider, Bibliographisches Handbuch, p. 113; Wolf, Bibliotheca Hebr. 4:250, 298; Jocher, Allem. 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