BOCHART, SAMUEL (1599-1667), a famous French scholar, who was born at Rouen on May 3o, 1599. He was for many years pastor of a Protestant church at Caen. In 1646 he published his Phaleg and Chanaan (Caen, 1646 and 1651), the two parts of his Geographia Sacra. His Hierozoicon, which treats of the animals of Scripture, was printed in London (1663). In 1652 Christina of Sweden invited him to Stockholm, where he studied the Arabian manuscripts in the queen's possession. Bochart had a profound knowledge of the principal oriental languages, including Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldaic, and Arabic, but was obsessed by the desire to derive all languages from Phoenician. A complete edition of his works was published at Leyden, under the title of Sam. Bochart Opera Omnia (1675 ; 4th ed. 1712) . An Essay on the Life and Writings of Samuel Bochart, by W. R. Whit tingham, appeared in 1829.