Andreas Schott
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Andreas Schott (latinised as Andreas Schottus and Andreas Scottus; 12 September 1552 – 23 January 1629) was an academic, linguist, translator, editor and a
Life
Schott was born in Antwerp as the son of Franciscus Schott and Anna Bosschaert.[2] He had a brother, also called Franciscus, who became a legal scholar, served as mayor and alderman of Antwerp and authored an Italian travel guide.[3] Andreas studied philosophy at the Leuven University's Collegium Trilingue, a college where Latin, Greek and Hebrew were taught. His teachers included Cornelius Valerius for Latin, and Theodoricus Langius for Greek. He graduated in 1573, placing 61st in his year, and began teaching rhetoric at the undergraduate college Paedagogium Castri (Castle College) while undertaking further studies in theology under Michael Baius.[2] One of his students was Peter Pantin (Petrus Pantinus) (1556–1611), who became a longtime companion and lifelong friend.[2]
In 1576, with university life disrupted by the
In 1583 Schott resigned his position in Toledo in favour of Pantin, and travelled to
Schott died in Antwerp on 23 January 1629, after suffering ten days of intestinal inflammation.[2]
As a scholar, he corresponded with
Editions by Schott
- De viris illvstribvs vrbis Romæ liber falsò hactenus Corn. Nepoti, vel C. Plinio Caecilio inscriptus by Aurelius Victor (1577)
- Origo gentis romanae,[6] (1579) manuscript from Theodore Poelmann, printed with De Viris illustribus Urbis Romae, De Caesaribus, De Vita et Mortis Imperatorum Romanorum[7]
- De situ orbis spicelegio auctus of Pomponius Mela (Antwerp 1582)
- Tabulae rei nummariae Romanorum Graecorumque (1605)
- L. Annaei Senecae philosophi et M. Annaei Senecae rhetoris qvae extant opera by Seneca the rhetorician(1607)
- Commentarius in Aemilium Probum (1609) commentary on Aemilius Probus
- Photii bibliotheca graeco-latina (1611)
- Adagia sive Proverbia Graecorvm by Diogenianus (1612)
- Observationvm hvmanorvm lib. V. quibus Græci Latiniq[ue] scriptores, philologi, poetæ, historici, oratores & philosophi emendatur by Proclus Diadochus (1615)
- In Ciceronem Annotationes: Quibus lectiora eiusdem carmina accedunt of Carolus Langus (Carl Lange)
- Antonini Augusti Provinciarum
Publications by Schott
- Laudatio funebris V. Cl. Ant. Augustini, archiepiscopi Tarraconensis, Ex officina Plantiniana, 1586
- 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
- ^ a b Reusch, Schott, Andreas in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 32 (1891), pp. 392–393 (in German)
- ^ a b c d e f g h Alphonse Roersch, "Schott, André", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 22 (Brussels, 1914–1920), 1-14.
- ^ Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Biographisch Woordenboek. der Nederlanden, Volume 17-1, Haarlem 1852-'78, pp. 459-461 (in Dutch)
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- ^ 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 Archived 28 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine