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Leitch, William, D.D., a Scotch divine, was born in 1814 in the town of Rothesay, a famous ^vatering- place on the island of Bute, Scotland, and Avas educated at the University of Glasgow, which he entered at the age of eighteen, and graduated as master in 1836 with the highest honors in the departments of mathematical and physical science. While a student he also lectured in the university on astronomy, and as a result of his studies in this department we have from him a work entitled Cod^s Glorij in the Heavens ; o?; Contributions to A stro-t/ieoloffi/, which contains the most recent astronomical discoveries stated Avith special reference to theological questions. In 1838 he was licensed as a preacher of the Gospel in the Church of Scotland by the Presbj'tery of Dunoon. In 1843 he received a presentation to the parish of !Mon- imail. lie continued minister of this parish until 1859, when he was selected as j^rincipal of Queen's LTniversity. He is Avell known to have been the author of certain ar- ticles in which, in a masterly manner, the views of the late Dr. Wardlaw, of (Jlasgow, on the subject of miracles, are controverted. For several years he conducted a se- ries of investigations on the subject of partheno-genesis and alternate generations, as illustrated by the phenom- ena of sexual development iu hymenoptera. The result of these researches, which conflicts with that of tlie Ger- man physiologist Siebald in the same field, is given in the Transactions of the British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, and in the Annals of the Botanical Societij of Canada. Several separate publications of his also appeared on the subject of education. In 1860 he became principal of Queen's University, and this connection afforded him a seat in the Presbytery of Kingston, and, in consequence, in the synod also. His position also gave him a seat in the senatus of the Uni- versity of Toronto, and he was appointed an examiner of that university. -He died in 1862. See Appleton's Amer. Ann. Cyclop. 1864, p. 625.
Leitomysl orLeitomischel, John, a Bohemian ]irchne noted for liis energetic character and his unre- lenting hostility to the Hussites, flourished in the latter
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part of the 14th and the early years of the 1.5th centiirj-. He first comes under our notice as one of the two prel- ates— the archbishop of Prague being the other — before whom John Iluss was to be cited for heresy. His posi- tion and influence in Bohemia were such that Stephen Paletz, writing against Huss, dedicated to him liis Dia- logue ]'okitUi.9. As the troubles at Prague increased, he was one of those to whom the archbishop of Prague ap- plied for advice, and his response was in accordance with ills notoriously stern and unbending character. Wlien the Council of Constance met in 1414, he was present as a member, and took a leading part in its proceedings. He was the first to denounce the Calixtine practice, recently introduced by Jacobel at Prague, and he was commissioned by the council to take measures for its suppression. His enmity to Huss -was signalized by the language used by him in the council, and excited the deep indignation of the friends of the Keformer, who did not hesitate to reprehend his course publicly in severe terms. His persistent energy, however, merited the eu- logiums of the council, and by them he was appointed to bear their threatening letter to Bohemia, in which they attemi>tod to terrify the followers of Huss into submis- sion. Tlie mission, however, proved a failure. The person of the bishop was no longer safe in his own coun- trj', and he returned to the comicil. The first reward of his diUgence was his promotion, about A.D. 1416, to the bishopric of Olmutz, in Moravia. On the secession of Conrad, archbishop of Prague, to the Calixtines a sliort time afterwanls, he was promoted to the vacant dignity. This, however, he was not destined to enjoy. The ascendencj' of the Calixtines must have excluded him from Prague, if not from Bohemia ; and perhaps among all the enemies of the Hussites, during the pe- riod of their religious wars, there was no one who could have been sooner made the victim of their vengeance than the obnoxious bishop. But as no mention is made of him at a subsequent date, and as he does not appear to have fallen into the hands of the Hussite leaders, we may presume that his life must have closed soon after the dissolution of the Council of Constance. He was eminently a martial prelate, and was known by the sobriquet of "John the Iron." Notices of him will be found in many histories of his times. See Von der Hardt, A uthoriiies on the Council of Constance ; Lenfant, Coun- cil of Constance ; Gillett, Life and Times of John Huss, vols, i and ii ; F. Polacky, Maij. J. IIus Documenta. — Ne- andcr, Ch. Illst. v, 296 sq. (E. H. G.)
Lejay, Gui-Michel, a noted French scholar in ex- egetical theology, was born at Paris in l.'JSS. While at the high school he paid particular attention to the East- ern languages, and in 1615 projected a polyglot of the Bible, known as the Paiis Polyglot (Paris, 1620-45, 10 vols, fdlii)), and entitled Biblia llebraica, Samaritana, ( 'halihilcd. ilra'ca, Syriaca, Latina, Arabica, quibus tex- tus orifjiiKiks totius Scripturae sacrce, quarum pars in tditione Complutensi, deinde in A ntwerpiensi regiis sump- tibus extat, nunc integri ex manuscriptis toto fere orbe qiicesitis exeinplaribus exhibentur. The first four vols, contain the Heb., Chald., Sept., and Vulg. texts of the O. T. ; vols. V and vi the N. T. in Gr., Syr., Arab., and Lat. ; vol. vii, the Heb. Samar. Pent., the Sam. version, with translation by Morinus, the Arab, and Syr. Pent. ; vols, viii-x, the rest of the books of the O. Test, in Syr. and Arab. Lejay lost largely by this publication ; but, as a reward for his labor and cost, he was ennobled. The work was the best of its kind till the London Poly- glot appeared, by which it was soon superseded. See Lolong, IHscours historique sur les pi-ineipales editions des Bibles pohiglottes (Paris, 1713, 12mo), p. 104 sq., 379, 399 sij., 545, 546 sq. ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxx, 512 sq. ; Kitto, Cyclop. Bibl. Lit. vol. ii, s. v.