CASAUIION, ISAAC, one of the most learned men of his age, was born at Genera, on the bth of February 1559. Hie father and mother, Arnold Casauben and Jeanne Roaseau, were natives of the Deuphin6, and retired to Genera to avoid a religious persecution. They returned however after the persecution ceased to Crest, a small town of Dau !shied, of which Arnold was appointed minister, and here young L/saubon studied under his father until his niucteonth year, when be went to Switzerland to hoar the lectures of Francis Portus, a Cretan, who was then professor of Greek at Lausanne, and whom he succeeded on his death in 15s2. In 1556 be married Florence, daughter of Henry Stephens, the celebrated eoholar and printer. About 1591 he was involved in serious pecuniary difficulties from having been surety in a large sum of money for an Englishman named M'otton (probably the well-known Sir Ilenry, who afterwards brought Casaubon to England), and though Joseph Sesdiger and some other friends assisted him, he was much straitened in his circumstances by this loss, and either this or the moroseness of his father-in-law induced him to accept an offer of the Greek professorship at Montpellier. Ile removed to Montpellier hi the latter end of 1596, and commenced his duties in the February of the following year. In 1599 Henri IV. sent for him to Paris, and in the following year appointed him one of the Protestant judges in the controversy between Du Perron, bishop of Evreux, and Du Plessis Mornay. In 1603 ho succeeded Gosaelin as head librarian to the king. The Catholics made many attempts to gain so distinguished
a convert ; but there does not seem to be any reason for concluding that they bad even partial success, although It was given out that he had wavered in a conference with Du l'erron. The death of Henri IV., in 1610, rendered his stay in France neither safe nor profitable; and, having obtained permission from the Queen of France, he gladly went over to England with Sir Henry Wotton, the English ambassador. Janice I. received him with great distinction, and employed him in writing a confutation of Baronins. Casanbon WAS appointed pre bendary of Canterbury and Westminster, and had also a pension of 3004. Ile died on the let of July 1614, and was iuterred in West minster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory. His chief work. are the following :-1. ' Strabo,' with Commentaries, (loners, 1517; reprinted with additions, Paris, 1620, fol. 2. 'Aristo telie Opera; with marginal notes, Geneva, 1605, fol. 3. Charactctcs.' Lugd. 1592, 12mo ; the best edition is the third, printed at Lyon in 1612. 4. 'Suetonii Opera,' with an excellent commentary, Genera, 1596, 4to ; best edition Lutet., 1610, foL 5. 'Athenseus; Lugd., 1600, fol; Lugd., 1612, fol. 6. ' Penii Satyric,' Lutet., 1605, bro. 7. ' De SstyrioA Orwoorum roost; Lutet., 1605, bro. 8. 'l'olybii Opera; Lutet.,1609,ful.; the dedication to lienri I V. is much admired. P. ' Evercitatlones contra Baronium; London, 1614, fol.