Viguier, Pierre François a French Orientalist, was born at Besancon July 20, 1745. He entered the ecclesiastic ranks and taught rhetoric at the college of his native place; afterwards he passed into the Congregation of St. Lazarus, and taught theology in the Seminary of Sens. In 1772 he went to Algiers to redeem the Christian slaves; and in 1783 to Constantinople, as apostolical praefect of the Jesuit establishments in the Levant, where he acquired a knowledge of the Oriental languages. After his return to France (1802) he lived in retirement, and died there Feb. 7, 1821. He left several works on Eastern philology, history, etc., for which see Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé, s.v.
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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