biography
| name: |
Scaliger, Joseph Justus
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pronunciation:
[skalijer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1540–1609)
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in Agen, SW France, the son of Julius Caesar Scaliger. He studied in Paris, became a Protestant, and travelled widely in Europe, becoming professor at Leyden in 1593. One of the most erudite scholars of his day, a classical linguist and historian, he is best known for his Opus de emendatione temporum (1583), a study of earlier methods of calculating time. |
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