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Isaac Casaubon

1559 - 1614

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Isaac Casaubon (; French: [kazobɔ̃]; 18 February 1559 – 1 July 1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England. His son Méric Casaubon was also a classical scholar. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isaac Casaubon is the 2,602nd most popular writer (up from 3,346th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 346th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Swiss Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Isaac Casaubon ranks 2,602 out of 7,302Before him are Alice B. Toklas, Palaephatus, Bhanubhakta Acharya, Timotheus of Miletus, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, and André Salmon. After him are Jorge Guillén, Cornelia Funke, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Ottavio Rinuccini, Mir Taqi Mir, and D. B. Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1559, Isaac Casaubon ranks 9Before him are Ishida Mitsunari, Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Catherine de Bourbon, Lawrence of Brindisi, Ōtani Yoshitsugu, and Cigoli. After him are Philip II, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and George Chapman. Among people deceased in 1614, Isaac Casaubon ranks 11Before him are Luís Vaz de Torres, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Mavro Orbini, Marina Mniszech, and Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme. After him are Man Singh I, François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Sibylla of Anhalt, and Felice Anerio.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Isaac Casaubon ranks 273 out of 1,015Before him are Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Matilda of Habsburg (1253), Daniel Peter (1836), Doris Leuthard (1963), Hugo Koblet (1925), and Abraham Trembley (1710). After him are Leopold Kielholz (1911), Alexandre Calame (1810), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Gustave Moynier (1826), and Gilberto Agustoni (1922).

Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Isaac Casaubon ranks 27Before him are Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Jean Starobinski (1920), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), Emma Jung (1882), Johann Peter Hebel (1760), and Heinrich Glarean (1488). After him are Alphonse Matejka (1902), Peter Bichsel (1935), Peter Bieri (1944), Fleur Jaeggy (1940), Arthur Cravan (1887), and Fernán Caballero (1796).