Quotes:Bochart, Samuel

Zirkoff, Boris

Bochart, Samuel. French scholar, b. at Rouen, May 30, 1599; d. in 1667. For many years pastor of a Protestant church at Caen. Invited, 1652, to Stockholm by Christina of Sweden, to study the Arabian MSS. in her possession. He was highly versed in most Oriental languages and published in 1646 his *Geographia sacra, composed of two works: Phaleg and *Chanaan, which treat on the dispersion of nations and the alleged Phoenician origin of most languages. A later ed. is of 1692.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 634