André Schott
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André Schott
André Schott (in Latin Andreas Schottus; 12 September 1552 – 23 January 1629) was a Flemish Jesuit priest, academic, linguist, translator and editor.
Born in Antwerp (in the Seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries) he studied at the Collegium Trilingue of Louvain, where he was a pupil of the Latinist Cornelius Valerius,[1] Douai and Paris; and taught in Zaragoza and Toledo.
After entering the Society of Jesus in 1586 he taught Greek in Rome and Antwerp. He corresponded with Ortelius, Isaac Casaubon, and Hugo Grotius.[2] André Schott died in Antwerp in 1629.
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Editions Schottus was responsible for
- Aurelius Victor (1577)
- Origo gentis romanae,[3] (1579) manuscript from Theodore Poelmann, printed with De Viris illustribus Urbis Romae, De Caesaribus, De Vita et Mortis Imperatorum Romanorum[4]
- De situ orbis spicelegio auctus of Pomponius Mela (Antwerp 1582)
- Tabulae rei nummariae Romanorum Graecorumque (1605)
- Seneca the rhetorician (1607)
- Commentarius in Aemilium Probum (1609) commentary on Aemilius Probus
- Photii bibliotheca graeco-latina (1611)
- Proverbs of Diogenianus (1612)
- Chrestomathy of Proclus (1615)
- In Ciceronem Annotationes: Quibus lectiora eiusdem carmina accedunt of Carolus Langus (Carl Lange)
- Antonini Augusti Provinciarum
Schottus' own works
- Hispania illustrata 1604
- Annotationum Spicilegium
- Adagia sive Proverbia Graecorum Antwerp, 1612
- Adagia sacra Novi Testamenti 1612
- Observationum Humanarum libri V Hanoviae, 1615
Notes and references
- ^ Sandys, II, p. 305
- ^ Guillaume H.M. Posthumus Meyjes (ed.), Hugo Grotius, Meletius sive De iis quae inter Christianos conveniunt Epistola: Critical Edition with Translation, Commentary and Introduction, Brill 1988, p. 33, n. 67
- ^ Anonymous, Origo Gentis Romanae: The Origin of the Roman People (2004). Preface.
- ^ Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 3, page 1255
- F.-N.-J.-G. Baguet (1848), Notice biographique et littéraire sur André Schott (Andreas Schottius), Bruxelles, Hayez
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