Guillaume Postel (M / France, 1510-1581), scholar

Guillaume Postel

Guillaume Postel (1510-1581) was a French linguist, astronomer, and a pioneer in Second Temple Studies. A scholar of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac, he was part of the international movement of so-called Christian Kabbalists, who saw in the Jewish Kabbalah and in Classical Hermetic texts a source of pre-Christian wisdom.

Works

Books

• De originibus seu de hebraicae linguae & gentis antiquitate (1538 Postel), book

• Alcorani seu legis Mahometi et Evangelistarum concordiae liber (1543 Postel), book

• De orbis terrae concordia (The Harmony of the Earth / 1544 Postel), book

• De Etruriae regionis (1551 Postel), book

• De originibus seu de varia ... Latino incognita historia totius Orientis (1553 Postel), book

References

• Jewish Virtual Library

External links

• Wikipedia.en -- Wikipedia.de -- Wikipedia.fr -- Wikipedia.it -- Wikipedia.es