Nostradamus family today
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December 14, 1503 - July 2, 1566
Michel de Nostradame, more commonly known as Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties ("The Prophecies"), the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events.
Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. Moreover, none of the sources listed offers any evidence that anyone has ever interpreted any of Nostradamus's quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any event in advance.
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Nostradamus
One of the most fascinating personalities of 16th century France was Michel de Nostradame, better known to us by his pseudonym, Nostradamus. He is famous for his prophesies. More than one thousand were contained in his ten volume mystical work The Centuries which he began writing in 1554. Modern devotees believe that Nostradamus correctly predicted such events as the stock market crash of 1929, the Second World War, the Kennedy assassination and the end of the Cold War.
Michel de Nostredame was born in the small Provencal town of St Remy where his father was a prosperous notary. From an early age, the boy showed a talent for prophecy and as a student he was skilled in mathematics and astrology and learned Greek, Latin and Hebrew. Both of his grandfathers were court physicians and were influential in Michel's education participating in his instruction in medicine and herbal folk medicine as well as the "forbidden" arts of Kabbalah and alchemy.
When the French king, Louis XII ordered all Jews to be baptized, Nostradamus' family complied, but contin
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Nostradamus
French seer and astrologer (1503–1566)
For other uses, see Nostradamus (disambiguation).
Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566[1]), usually Latinised as Nostradamus,[a] was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942[b] poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.
Nostradamus's father's family had originally been Jewish, but had converted to Catholic Christianity a generation before Nostradamus was born. He studied at the University of Avignon, but was forced to leave after just over a year when the university closed due to an outbreak of the plague. He worked as an apothecary for several years before entering the University of Montpellier, hoping to earn a doctorate, but was almost immediately expelled after his work as an apothecary (a manual trade forbidden by university statutes) was discovered. He first married in 1531, but his wife and two children died in 1534 during another plague outbreak. He work
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