.? Ussher, James
[1581-1656] Erzbischof von Armagh, Primas von ganz Irland. Creationist. Autor von "The annals of the world deduced from the origin of time, and continued to the beginning of the Emperour Vespasians reign, and the totall destruction and abolition of the temple and common-wealth of the Jews: containing the historie of the Old and New Testament, with that of the Macchabees, also the most memorable affairs of Asia and Egypt, and the rise of the empire of the Roman Caesars under C. Julius, and Octavianus: collected from all history, as well sacred, as prophane, and methodically digested," in welchem er das Datum der Schöpfung auf das Jahr 4004 v. Chr. aus der Analyse biblischer Genealogien ableitete. Ein interessanter Kommentar dazu ist in Goulds Essay "Fall of the House of Ussher", in seiner Sammlung "Eight Little Piggies" (Penguin 1993).