Samuel Bochart
Samuel Bochart was born on May 30, 1599. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Samuel Bochart
Samuel Bochart (French: [bɔʃaʁ]; 30 May 1599 – 16 May 1667) was a French biblical scholar and Reformed minister, a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet. His two-volume Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan (Caen 1646) exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis. Bochart was one of the several generations of antiquaries who expanded upon the basis Renaissance humanists had laid down, complementing their revolutionary hermeneutics by setting classical texts more firmly within the cultural contexts of Greek and Roman societies, without…