ANDREAS SCHOTTUS

'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)

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Notes

1. Sandys, II, p. 305)

Reference

★ F.-N.-J.-G. Baguet (1848), ''Notice biographique et littéraire sur André Schott (Andreas Schottius)
Bruxelles, Hayez,

External links

★ At Meyers Konversationlexicon (German language)

★ Some biography]