Jacques Basnage [SEP] place of birth
Jacques Basnage
Jacques Basnage De Beauval (8 August 165322 December 1723) was a celebrated French Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs. He wrote a "History of the Reformed Churches" and on "Jewish Antiquities".
Biography.
Jacques Basnage was born at Rouen in Normandy, the eldest son of the eminent lawyer Henri Basnage de Franquesnay. He studied classical languages at Saumur and afterwards theology at Geneva. He was pastor at Rouen from 1676 till 1685, when, on the revocation
Long (d. 1721), and Montfaucon (d. 1741). Hottinger gave this literature a place in his "Bibliotheca Orientalis"; Otho (1672) wrote a biographical lexicon of the Mishnah teachers; and Bartolocci's "Bibliotheca Rabbinica" (1675) was a worthy continuation of these bibliographical labors.
18th century.
The first half of the 18th century contains the names of three important scholars. Jacques Basnage knew no Hebrew, but his "L'Histoire de la Religion des Juifs" was the first attempt at a