Andreas Schottus
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André Schott (Andreas Schottus) (Antwerp, 1552-Rome, 1629) was a Belgian academic, linguist, translator and editor. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1586.
He was educated in Louvain, where he was a pupil of Cornelius Valerius [1], Douai and Paris; and taught in Saragossa and Toledo. After becoming a Jesuit he taught Greek in Rome and Antwerp.
He corresponded with Ortelius and Isaac Casaubon.
He was responsible for editions of
- Aurelius Victor (1577)
- Origo gentis romanae, [1] (1579) manuscript from Theodore Poelmann, printed with De Viris illustribus Urbis Romae, De Caesaribus, De Vita et Mortis Imperatorum Romanorum[2]
- 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
His own works:
- Hispania illustrata (1604)
- Annotationum Spicilegium
- Adagia sive Proverbia Graecorum (Antwerp, 1612)
- Adagia sacra Novi Testamenti (1612)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Sandys, II, p. 305)
[edit] Reference
- F.-N.-J.-G. Baguet (1848), Notice biographique et littéraire sur André Schott (Andreas Schottius)
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