Moses Solanus or Moïse du Soul (1665 – 1735?)
[Alexis Léonas, ''Recherches sur le langage de la Septante'' (2005), p. 14]
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was a French classical scholar.
Life
He was grandson of Paul du Soul of Tours, who was professor of theology and rector of
Saumur Academy
The Academy of Saumur (french: Académie de Saumur) was a Huguenot university at Saumur in western France. It existed from 1593, when it was founded by Philippe de Mornay, until shortly after 1685, when Louis XIV decided on the revocation of the Ed ...
between 1657 and 1661. As a Protestant he was driven from France by persecution, and seems to have settled at
Amsterdam, before moving to England. His Greek scholarship recommended him to the notice of men of influence at both Oxford and Cambridge.
He graduated
Master of Arts (MA) at the
University of Cambridge in 1701, ''
per literas regias''; he already had an MA from one of the
University of Groningen and
University of Franeker, where he had studied, and had at Franeker been a pupil of
Jacob Rhenfurd, around 1700
Encouraged by
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley FRS (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellen ...
, he projected an edition of
Lucian
Lucian of Samosata, '; la, Lucianus Samosatensis ( 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer
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, of which in 1708 he printed a specimen at Cambridge, and he collected materials for a life of the writer. Nothing, however, came of this edition. In the same year he was employed in the family of the
Earl of Wharton Wharton may refer to:
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* Wharton County Junior College
* Paul R. Wharton High School
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Places
* Wharton, Ch ...
. In 1722 and 1723 he was at
The Hague, possibly on a mission to the Wetsteins.
A passage in the preface of
Johan Frederik Reitz Johan
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's edition of Lucian shows that he was living after 1733. He appears to have died before 1737.
Works
Solanus wrote against the view of
Sebastian Fochen, that
New Testament Greek contained only expressions from classical Greek.
[ Moses Stuart, ''A Grammar of the New Testament Dialect'' (1841), p. 9]
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His work on the subject appeared in the collection of Jacob Rhenferd.
With
Jean-Baptiste Brutel de la Rivière Jean-Baptiste Brutel de la Rivière (17 August 1669 – 14 August 1742) was a French Protestant minister, in exile in the Netherlands, and man of letters.
Life
He was born in Montpellier on 17 August 1669, into a noble family of Languedoc; he was t ...
, he translated
Humphrey Prideaux's ''An Historical Connection of the Old and New Testaments'' into French, as ''Histoire des Juifs et des peuples voisins'' (Amsterdam, 1722). Returning to England, he completed an edition of ''
Plutarch's Lives'' (5 vols. London, 1729); it had been started by
Augustine Bryan
Augustine Bryan (died 1726) was an English classical scholar, known for his edition of '' Plutarch's Lives''.
Life
He was the son of Augustine Bryan of London, and studied at St Paul's School. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 170 ...
, and
Thomas Bentley
Thomas Bentley (23 February 1884 – 23 December 1966) was a British film director. He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941. He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, ''The Man in the Street'' (1926), '' ...
had then proposed to continue it.
References
External links
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1665 births
1735 deaths
French classical scholars
French translators
French Protestants
French male non-fiction writers