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Jean Mercier (Hebraist)
Jean Mercier, Latin Joannes Mercerus (Uzès ca. 15101570) was a French Hebraist. Mercier was a pupil of the less known François Vatable, and succeeded Vatable as professor of Hebrew at the Collège Royal. His students included Philippe du Plessis-Mornay, Zacharius Ursinus, Andrew Melville, and Pierre Martinius who became professor at La Rochelle. Mercier served as Lecteur du Roi from 1546 onwards.Michel Bideaux ''Les échanges entre les universités européennes à la Renaissance'' Mercier fled to Venice because of his sympathies with Protestantism, but returned to France in 1570 following the conclusion of the third war of religion, only to succumb to the plague. Works *Aramaic grammar ''Tabulae in grammaticen linguae Chaldaeae'' (Paris, 1560) *''De notis Hebraeorum liber'' (1582), revised by Jean Cinqarbres *Commentary on Genesis (Geneva, posthumous 1598), published by Théodore de Bèze Translations *Bishop Jean du Tillet's Italian manuscript of the Hebrew Gospel of Mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hexabiblos -Constantine Harmenopoulos - 1587 - Lyon - First Page
Constantine Harmenopoulos ( el, ; 1320 – ) was a Byzantine jurist from Greece who held the post of '' katholikos kritēs'' ("universal judge") of Thessalonica, one of the highest judicial offices in the Byzantine Empire. He is best known for his ''Hexabiblos'' (1344–1345), a law book in six volumes in which he compiles a wide range of Byzantine legal sources. First printed 1540 in Paris, the ''Hexabiblos'' was widely adopted in the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire. In 1828, it was also adopted as the interim civil code in the newly independent Greek state Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with .... References * * Foundation of the Hellenic World, History of the late Byzantine PeriodThe Hexabiblos accessed January 2007 * External links *Manuale legum sive Hexabiblos cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
