Isaac Casaubon

Isaac Casaubon (18 February 1559, Geneva – 1 July 1614, London) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England, regarded by many of his time as the most learned in Europe.

Read more about Isaac Casaubon:  Early Life, Travels and Tribulations, Paris, England, Legacy, Literary Appearances

Famous quotes containing the word isaac:

    Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
    Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.

    To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)