Caspar Schoppe
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Caspar Schoppe (27 May 1576 – 19 November 1649) was a German catholic controversialist and scholar.
Life
He was born at
Schoppe obtained the favour of
Anthony Grafton writes about Bayle and Scioppius: "We owe to him [Bayle] the preservation of Caspar Scioppius' description of the sparrow he watched, from his student lodgings at Ingolstadt, having intercourse twenty times and then dying--as well as Scioppius' reflection, 'O unfair lot. Is this to be granted to sparrows and denied to men?'"[3]
Schoppe died at Padua on 19 November 1649.[1]
Works
In his Life of Sir Henry Wotton Izaak Walton, calling him Jasper Scioppius, refers to Schoppe as "a man of a restless spirit and a malicious pen.[1]" More recent material appears in Wotton And His Worlds by Gerald Curzon (2004).
Schoppe's major work is, perhaps, his Grammatica philosophica (Milan, 1628). He also wrote:[1]
- De arte critica (1597)
- De Antichristo (1605)
- Pro auctoritate ecclesiae in decidendis fidei controversiis libellus
- Scaliger hypobolymaeus (1607), a virulent attack on Scaliger
Anti-jesuitical Works:
- Flagellum Jesuiticum (1632)
- Mysteria patrum jesuitorum (1633)
- Arcana societatis Jesu (1635).
For a fuller list of his writings see
References
- ^ a b c d e f One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schoppe, Caspar". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 376–377.
- ^ Pullapilly, Cyriac K. (1975). Caesar Baronius: Counter-Reformation Historian. University of Notre Dame Press. p. 85.
- ^ Anthony Grafton. (1997) The footnote: A curious history. Harvard University Press, p. 197
External links
- Cavarzere, Marco (2018). "SCHOPPE, Kaspar". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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