Category
page 118th-century biblical scholars
John Wesley
founder of the Methodist movement (1703-1791)
Gaon of Vilnius
Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)
Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux
Swiss astronomer (1718–1751)
Richard Bentley
English classical scholar, critic and theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1662–1742)
Jean Astruc
Professor of medicine:Montpellier/Paris/wrote the first great treatise on syphilis/venereal diseases (1684-1766)
Robert Lowth
Bishop of St David's; Bishop of Oxford; Bishop of London (1710-1787)
John Gill
English Baptist pastor, biblical scholar and theologian (1697-1771)
Petru Pavel Aron
Romanian Greek Catholic Bishop of Făgăraș (1752-1764)
Carl Gottfried Woide
Polish orientalist and biblical scholar
Giuseppe Bianchini
Italian historian

Dugald Buchanan
Scottish poet (1716-1768), helped translate the New Testament into Scottish Gaelic

Thomas Scott
preacher and author, died 1821
António Pereira de Figueiredo
Portuguese theologist
Henry Owen
Welsh mathematician, theologian and biblical scholar