Tremellius, Emmanuel a learned Protestant divine, was born at Ferrara in 1510. By birth a Jew, he was educated in the Jewish faith; but he was converted to Christianity by the teaching, it is said, of cardinal Pole and M. A. Flaminio. Through the influence of Peter Martyr he soon after joined the Reformation party, and became an active propagator of their views. Having left Italy, he visited Germany and England, where he lived in. intimacy with archbishops Cranmer and Parker, and for some time supported himself by teaching Hebrew at Cambridge. On the death of Edward VI he returned to Germany, where he remained teaching Hebrew at Hornbach and Heidelberg. He was next invited to occupy the Hebrew chair at Sedan, where he died in 1580. His works are: Rudimenta Lig. Heb. (Wittenb, 1541): — הנו ִבחירי יה, Initiatio Electorum Domini, a catechism in Hebrew (Par. 1551,1552; Strasb. 1554; Leyd. 1591): — Gam. Chald. et Syr., prefixed to Interpretatio 'Syr. N.T. Hebraicis Typis Descripta (Par. 1569): — Biblia Sacra, sive Libb. Canon. Latini recens ex leb. Facti (Francof. 1579; Lond. 1580). See Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 443; Kitto, Cyclop. . 5.; Steinschneider, Bibliogr. Handbuch, p. 140; Kalkar, Israel und (lie Kirche, p. 73 sq.; Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. I, 3, 4, No. 1797; Butters, Emmanuel Tremellius (Zweibricken, 1859); Delitzsch, Saat auf Hoffnung (Erlangen, 1865), 4:28 sq.; Da Costa, Israel and the Gentiles, p. 469 sq.; Adams, History of the Jews, 2, 71. (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