GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON-
842
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-948)
Name
Edmund Castell (Castle)
Title
Dr.
Gender
Male
Lived
b. ca. 1606-01-01 d. 1686-09-01 (new)
Linked Sermons
Sermon on Psalms 76:11
(autograph: Yes )
- dedicatee?
Sermon on Luke 10:5
(autograph: No )
- preacher?
Sermon on Luke 21:38
(autograph: No )
- preacher?
Associated Places
Source of Data (Contributor name)
Jeanne Shami
Biographical Sources Consulted
ODNB (Article: 4865); CCEd (Person ID: 66892)
Other note
Castell was a professor of Arabic at Cambridge, and completed a commercially disastrous Lexicon Heptaglotton. He spent much of 1669 and 1670 in London trying, unsuccessfully, to dispose of the stock of his failed volume.
GEMMS record created
November 7, 2016
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024