John Hawkins (grammarian)
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John Hawkins (c. 1587 – c. 1641) was an English physician, known as a grammarian and translator.[1]
He was a son of Sir Thomas Hawkins (died 1617) of Nash Court, Boughton under Blean, Kent, and his wife, Ann Pettyt; the family was recusant, with Sir Thomas Hawkins and Henry Hawkins the Jesuit being elder brothers. He took his degree of M.D. at the University of Padua.[2]
Hawkins appeared in John Gee's list of Popish Physicians in and about the City of London in 1624 as residing in Charterhouse Court.[2] He was not elected to the College of Physicians of London.[1]
Works
Hawkins published:[2]
- A brief Introduction to Syntax, collected out of Nebrissa. … With the Concordance supplyed by J. H., London, 1631, translated from Antonio de Nebrija.
- Discursus de Melancholia Hypochondriaca, Heidelberg, 1633.
- The Ransome of Time being captive. Wherein is declared how precious a thing is Time, London, 1634, translation from the Spanish of Andreas de Soto.
- Dictionary of Latin verbs (1634)[1]
- Particulæ Latinæ Orationis, collectæ, dispositæ, et confabulationibus digestæ, London, 1635, on Latin grammatical particles.
- Paraphrase upon the seaven Penitential Psalms, London, 1635, translated from Italian.
