CASAUBON, ISAAC DE, a great scholar and critic, was b. Feb. 8, 1559, at Geneva, where, in 1582, he was appointed professor of the Greek language. Subsequently he held professorships at :Montpellier, 1596, and at Paris, 1598, but the death of Henry IV. rendered his position (C. being a Protestant) very insecure, and lie therefore gladly accepted the offer of sir Henry Wotton to visit England. King James received hint with distinction, and appointed him some time after prebendary of Canterbury and West minster. He died in London, July 1, 1614. His acute investigation and criticism were applied to several branches of archaeology and theology. Among his chief works may be mentioned the able dissertation, De Satirica Grcecornm Past et Romanorunl Satira (1605); the treatise De Libertate Ecclesiatttica (1607); and the Erercitationm contra Bare nium (1614), a confutation of cardinal Baronius. His critical and exegetical works include editions of Diogenes Laertius, Aristotle.Theophrastus, Suetonius, Persius, Polyb
ius, Theocritus, Strabo, etc.—See Isaac Casaubon, by Mark Pattison (1875).
His son, MEnic CASAUBON, was b. at Geneva, 14th Aug., 1599; educated first at. Sedan, be accompanied his father to England, and entered Christ Church college, Oxford, where he took his degree of M.A. in 1621. He was appointed rector of Ickham, near Canterbury, 1628, and afterwards professor of theology at Oxford. He died at Oxford; July 14, 1671. His attachment to Charles I. deprived him of all his preferments during the commonwealth, but at the restoration he received them again. Merle was, like his father, distinguished for his erudition; edited the works of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Terence, Epictetus, etc.; and wrote a treatise, De Enth718la47710 (Loud. 1655).