Henry Stubbe

Henry Stubbe oder Stubbes (* 1632 in Lincolnshire; † 1676 in Bath) war ein englischer Gelehrter und Autor.

Leben und Leistungen

Henry Stubbe war ein vielseitiger Gelehrter und Mediziner, der unter anderem an der Universität Oxford die Philosophie von Thomas Hobbes unterstützte, ein Buch zur damals noch relativ unbekannten Schokolade sowie eine Abhandlung zum Islam verfasst hat.

Laut Anthony Wood war Stubbe einer der besten Gelehrten für die Sprachen Latein and Griechisch seiner Zeit sowie ein guter Mathematiker und Historiker.

Werke

Vindication of that Prudent and Honourable Knight Sir Henry Vane (1659)
A Light Shining Out Of Darkness (1659)
The Indian nectar, or, A discourse concerning chocolate (1662)
An Epistolary Discourse Concerning Phlebotomy and The Lord Bacons Relation of the Sweating-Sickness Examined (1671)
A Justification of the Present War against the United Netherlands (1672)
An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, and a Vindication of him and his Religion from the Calumnies of the Christians (1674?)[1]

Literatur

P. M. Holt: A seventeenth-century defender of Islam: Henry Stubbe (1632–76) and his book. Dr Williams's Trust, London 1972, (Friends of Dr. Williams's Library 26, ISSN 0305-3962).
James R. Jacob: Henry Stubbe, radical Protestantism and the early Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. 2002, ISBN 0-521-52016-9.

Anmerkungen

Henry Stubbe, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford: An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, with the life of Mahomet and a vindication of him and his religion from the calumnies of the Christians ... From a manuscript copied by Charles Hornby of Pipe Office, in 1705 "with some variations and additions". Edited, with an introduction and appendix, by Hafiz Mahmud Khan Shairani. Luzac & Co., London 1911, (xxi, 247 S.); auch: Orientalia, Lahore 1954.

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[1] Henry Stubbe, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford: An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, with the life of Mahomet and a vindication of him and his religion from the calumnies of the Christians ... From a manuscript copied by Charles Hornby of Pipe Office, in 1705 "with some variations and additions". Edited, with an introduction and appendix, by Hafiz Mahmud Khan Shairani. Luzac & Co., London 1911, (xxi, 247 S.); auch: Orientalia, Lahore 1954.