See also: Casaubon

Isaac Casaubon , born with Geneva the February 18th 1559 and died in London on July 1st 1614, is humanistic and Protestant scholar.

Biography

He teaches the Greek with Geneva in 1582, then with Montpellier and Paris, where Henri IV the fact of coming in 1598. He east names royal Bibliothécaire and professor with the royal Collège, where he is titular pulpit of Greek of 1600 with 1610. To died of the Henri IV, it is invited by the archbishop of Canterbury to go in England, which it calls the island of the happy and where he passes the remainder of his life. It obtains Jacques Ier of England a pension and rich person benefit. It binds friendship with Grotius and Thomas Morton, bishop of Durham. He dies in London and he is buried in the Abbaye of Westminster.

Scaliger indicated Casaubon like “the most erudite man of Europe”. He played a big role in the Protestant mediums and attended the conference of Fontainebleau between the cardinal Jacques-Davy Duperron and Philippe Duplessis-Mornay.

Isaac Casaubon composed an extraordinary number of works, of which some under the pseudonym of Misoponerus: comments on Diogène Laërce, Polyen, Strabon, Théocrite, Athenaeum; translations of Aristote, Théophraste, Polybe, Persian, Suétone. It established the Greek text of the Deipnosophistae of Athénée in 1597. He is also the author of a Réfutation of the errors of Baronius and of Lettres and he left under the title of Éphémérides a newspaper, published to Oxford in 1850 by John Russell, which contains invaluable information on the policy of its time.

His/her son is Méric Casaubon.

Publications

• Animadversionum in Athenaei dipnosophistas , Lyon, Antone de Harsy, 1600. First translation of the Athenaeum.
• Historiae Avgvstae Scriptores Sex. Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Polio, & Flauius Vopiscus. Isaacvs Casavbonvs ex vett. libris recensuit: idemque librum adiecit emendationvm ac notarvm , Paris, Drouart, 1603.
• Of satyrica graecorum poesi and romanorum will satira libri duet , Paris, Drouart, 1605. Treaty of the satire among the Greeks and Romans.
• Auli Persii Flacci Satirarum Liber. Isaacus Casaubonus Recensuit, & Commentario Libro Illustravit. AD Virum Amplissimum D. Achillem Harlaeum Senatus Principem , Paris, Drouart, 1615. This copy is the 2nd edition of its great comment (the first ED. was published in 1605). Based on its Greek conferences in Geneva, there increased the level for more than two hundred years, and remains still employed in the modern editions.
• Misoponeri Satyricon. Cum notis aliquot AD will obscuriora prosae loca and Graecorum interpretatione . Lugduni Batavorum, Sebastianum Wolzium, 1617. Posthumous work dedicated to king d' Angleterre.

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