Tabaraud, Matthieu Mathurin a French controversialist, was born at Limoges in 1744. He was educated by the Jesuits, was for some time professor of belles-lettres at Nantes, professor of theology and Hebrew at Arles, in 1783 superior of the college at Pdzenas, in 1787 at Rochelle, emigrated in 1791 to England, and died at Limoges, January 9, 1832. He published, Traite Historique et Critique de l'Election des Eveques (Paris, 1792, 2 volumes): — De la Necessite d'une Religion d'Etat (1803, 1804): — Principes sur la Distinction du Contrat et dut Sacrement de Mariage (1802, 1816): — Histoire de Pierre de Berulle, Fondateur de la Congregation de l'Oratoire (1817, 2 volumes). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:726, 820; Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, 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