Casaubon, Isaac, an eminent classical scholar and commentator, born in Geneva; professor of Greek at Geneva and Montpellier, and afterwards of belles-lettres at Paris, invited thither by Henry IV., who pensioned him; being a Protestant he removed to London on Henry's death, where James I. gave him two prebends; has been ranked with Lepsius and Scaliger as a scholar (1559‒1614).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Casas, Bartolomeo de Las * Casaubon, Meric