Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), French religious scholar. Sacliger was born at Agen and educated at Bordeaux and Paris. He learnt Greek, Hebrew and Arabic before one of his teachers secured for him the post of travelling companion to Louis de Chastaigner. This led to travels all over Europe, during which Scaliger became a Protestant. His major works were on historical criticism. He published editions of classical history, notably De emendatione temporum of 1583, in which he showed that classical chronology was not just about Romans and Greeks, but had to include histories of the Persians, Babylonians and the Jews. His often sarcastic commentaries on other historians made him enemies and he was the victim of a series of bitter written attacks by Jesuit writers, especially by Scioppius This engraving comes from van Meurs' Illustris Academia Lugd-Batava, printed at Leiden in 1613.