The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius

by M. De Burigny

Jean Levesque de Burigny (1692-1785) was a French historian born in Reims. In 1713, together with his brothers Champeaux and Levesque de Pouilly, he began to compile a dictionary of universal knowledge, similar to an encyclopaedia, which comprised 12 large manuscript folios and afforded de Burigny with ample material for his subsequent works. In 1718 in The Hague, Netherlands, he worked with Saint-Hyacinthe on L'Europe savante, published in 12 volumes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140680083X
• ISBN13: 9781406800838
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Echo Library
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"