The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . 8). The following works by himwere placed on the Index of Forbidden Books : (1) Histoire de la di^cadence de Iempire depuis Charle-magne (Paris, 1676); (2) Histoire du grand schismedOccident (Paris, lti7s); (3) Histoire du Luth6-ranisme (Paris, 1680); (4) Trait<? historique der^tablissement et des prerogatives de I^glise de Romeet de ses ^voques (Paris, 1685); (5) Histoire duPontifieat de S. Gregoire le Grand (Paris, 1686). Heis the author o
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . 8). The following works by himwere placed on the Index of Forbidden Books : (1) Histoire de la di^cadence de Iempire depuis Charle-magne (Paris, 1676); (2) Histoire du grand schismedOccident (Paris, lti7s); (3) Histoire du Luth6-ranisme (Paris, 1680); (4) Trait<? historique der^tablissement et des prerogatives de I^glise de Romeet de ses ^voques (Paris, 1685); (5) Histoire duPontifieat de S. Gregoire le Grand (Paris, 1686). Heis the author of histories of Calvinism, of the League,and of Leo the Great. His collected historical workswere published at Paris, ICiSG. SoMMERVOGEL, Billinlltiijue de la Compagnie de Jesits, V(Paris, 1894), 343-56; Hurter in Kirchenlex. s. v.; Chalmers,Biographical Dictionary, XXI (London, 1815), 143-45. N. A. Weber. Maimonides, Moses, Teaching op.—Moses benMaimun (Arabic, Abu Amran Musa), Jewish com-mentator and , was born of Spanish Jew-ish parents at Cordova in 1135. After sojourning withhis parents in Spain, Palestine, and Northern Africa,. he settled down at Old Cairo, Egypt, in 1165. Therehe received the office of court phjsician, and at thesame time, as head of the Jewish communities inEgypt, devoted himself to the exposition of the Tal-mud. He died at Cairo, 13 December, 1204, and wasburied at Tiberias in Palestine. His writings in-clude: (1) Commentaries: (a) Kitdb al-Siraj, acommentary on the Mishnah, written in Arabic andtranslated into Hebrew (first pubUshed, 1492), Latin(Oxford, 1654), and German (Leipzig, 1863); (b)Mishneh Torah, or Yad ha-Hazakah, written inHebrew, and many times published (first ed. in Italy,1480; latest, Vilna, 1900); translated in part intoEnglish in 1863 by Bernard and Soloweyczik; (2)Philosophical Works: (a) Dalalat al-Hairtn, trans-lated into Hebrew as Moreh Nebtikim (1204), andinto Latin as Doctor Perplexorum, Dux Dubitan-tium. The Arabi
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