Post, Henry Albeitson, a Presbvterian minis- ter, was horn in Brooklyn, X. Y.. Sept.* 2, 1835. He received a careful parental training, enjoyed all the ad- of the academies of New England, and grad- uated at the New York Free Academy, lie studied
theology in the Union Seminary. New York, and sub- sequently in the Princeton Seminary, X. . I., where he graduated in 1858, and was licensed and ordained over the Church in Warrensburgh, X. Y.. dan. 10, 1860: this was his only charge, for hi' died Xov. 12, 1861. Mr. Post died in the very midst of his active work; still his short ministry gave full proof of his calling, and many souls were added to the Church. See Wilson, Fresh. Hist. Almanac, L863, p. 308. (J. 1.. S.)
Post, Reuben, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Cornwall, Vt., in 1792. He received a g 1 academ- ical training, and graduated with honor at Middlebury College, Vt., in 1814, and at the Theological Seminary ai Princeton, N. J., in 1818. On leaving the seminary, he spent some time as a missionary in Virginia, then accepted a call from the Firsl Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C, and was ordained in 1819. In 1836 he accepted a call from the Circular Church. Charleston, s. ( !., w here he labored faithfully for twenty-thn e \ ears, when he was taken ill. and died Sept. 24, 1858 See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac. 18G0, p. 77. (J. L. S.)
Postel, Crti i.At'Mt:. one of the most learned Frenchmen of his time, is celebrated especially as one of the wildest religious visionaries the world has ever encountered. He was horn May 28, 1505 (according to some historians, 1510), at Dolerie, near Barenton, in Normandy. He lost his parents early, and poverty compelled him to leave his country. At the age of thirteen years lie found at Say. mar Pontoise, a modest situation as schoolmaster, lie saved sonic money, and went to Paris to pursue hi.- studies, 'flu re he was the victim of a robbery, which reduced 1dm to extreme mis- ery, and he was confined by sickness to a hospital for two years. When he was restored to health, his pov- erty and the high price of living compelled him to leave Paris, and to support himself by gleaning in the Beauce. Afterwards he entered the College of Sainte-Barbe in the quality of a servant; there he became by private study one of t lie most learned Hebraists of his time. No less remarkable was his proficiency in the Creek language, lie lived successively in Audi ns and Rouen, and then went hack to Paris to become a tutor. He accompanied I. a Forest to Constantinople to transact some political business, lie went a second time to the capital of Turkey with the heirs of a citizen of Tours, who had died leaving oOO.IldO din. -its as a deposit in the hands of Ibrahim Pasha. Postel improved these occasions to study the Arabic language, and brought hack with him a number of manuscripts in Aral ic and Syriac. The New Testament in Syriac, which he was the firsl to bring to Europe, was printed at the expense of the emperor Ferdinand I. Shortly after this Postel published an alphabet in twelve languages, and some Other writings. His learning was now acknowledged by king Francis I, and he was given in 1539 a | ship of mathematics and Oriental languages, w ith a sal- ary of 200 ducats, which allowed him much leisure to
devote himself to linguistic studies; but he lost bis chair when chancellor l'oyet. hi- benefactor, fell into disgrace. Postel thereupon repaired to Vienna, where hi' helped .loh. Alb. Widmanstadl in the publica- tion of his New Testament in Syriac (printed in 1555). Compelled to leave that city for motives unknown, he wa- mistaken for a murderer wlm had some likeness to him. and arrested on the frontier of the Venetian terri- tory. He succeeded in escaping his captor-, and went
io Rome in 1544. He there made the acquaintance of Ignatius de Loyola, .and determined to enter the Order of the Jesuits. Bui the head of the neopln te was full of fantastic ideas, due to the study ol the rabbins, ami
also to the study of the stars. After a Iw n-vcar-' novi- tiate he wa- expelled from the order, and Ignatius pro- hibited all intercourse wiih him. Postel having ex- posed in some writings his mystical ideas, he was im- prisoned. Escaping to Venice, he wa- denounced to the inquisition, hut was dismissed by that tribunal, heinj,'
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