Joseph Justus Scaliger was a Franco-Italian Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian history. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in the Netherlands.
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Scaliger by Jan Cornelisz. van 't Woudt (1608)
Josephus Justus Scaliger, painted by Paulus Merula, 3rd librarian of Leiden University, 1597
Scaliger, in a print by Gérard Edelinck (late 18th century)
Scaliger's home in Leiden, Breestraat 113, in 2010.
Mesolabium, 1594
Elenchus et Castigatio calendarij Gregoriani, 1595In their orbit 1
Writers born in the 1540s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1540 to 1609 · aged 68
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