General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . able industry; hiswhole life was spent either in study or usefulemployment, and he never devoted at any sea-son of the year above five or six hours to displayed his love to mankind by many actsof beneficence, and his behaviour was as plainand simple as liis dress. Schli^htegrolls Necro~ BRENNER, Henry, a learned Swede, wasborn in 1669, in the parish of Kronoby inWest Bothnia, of which his father was clergy-ma
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . able industry; hiswhole life was spent either in study or usefulemployment, and he never devoted at any sea-son of the year above five or six hours to displayed his love to mankind by many actsof beneficence, and his behaviour was as plainand simple as liis dress. Schli^htegrolls Necro~ BRENNER, Henry, a learned Swede, wasborn in 1669, in the parish of Kronoby inWest Bothnia, of which his father was clergy-man. After studying at Upsal, he was chosenin the year 1697 to accompany Lewis Fabricius,who had been appointed by his Swedish ma-jesty embassador to Persia. During his jour-ney thither he had an excellent opportunity ofgratifying his taste for the Eastern languages,of which he acquired an extensive knowledge;and on that account he was left in Persia, thathe might assist the Persian envoy Sarug ChanBeg, then ready to set out for Sweden. Whenthese travellers were on their way through Rus-sia in 1700, as war had taken place betweenCharles XII. and Peter L, the czar suspecting. iirtdor cms xjcr^cr vren^i ptciaits, ilium,^darcm inccndit RclU^ioms ainor. ;p 5 . iiViii,iSi,; I.; Iv/.i „;.,.,. ;|;l.,|J>„..il, „iY,i:;ji,;;MUMMij,\.Ki,[V,i[j,LiViLj»jtv/i,v,..,,,,! B R E ( ^ilT ) C R E that Brenners mission might be connected withpohtical secrets, gave orders for his being ar-rested at Moscow, where he was subjected to along and close confinement, which lasted tillthe conclusion of the peace of Nystad. Thefruit of his journey, however, was a learnedepistolary correspondence with Elias Brenner,Gripenhielm, Gavelius, Benzelier, and Lilien-stedt, which has been in part communicated tothe public ; and the history of Moses ArmenusChoronensis, which he published after his re-turn, under the title of Epitome Commenta-riorum Moysis Armeni de Origi
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