Andreas Schott (Jesuit)

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Andreas Schott SJ (born September 12, 1552 in Antwerp ; † January 23, 1629 there ; also Andreas Schottus ) was a Jesuit , publicist , linguist and university lecturer .

Life

Schott studied at the University of Leuven . First he attended the Collegium Trilingue , where Cornelius Valerius (1512–1578) and Dietrich de Langhe were among his teachers, and then the Paedagogium Castri , where he also lectured on rhetoric . In 1576 he went to the University of Douai and in 1577 to Paris , where he was accepted by Augerius Ghilain von Busbeck . This was followed in 1579 in Bordeaux and Madrid and in Alcala . In 1580 he went with the Bishop of Roermond Wilhelm Lindanusto Toledo and on to Salamanca .

However, Schott returned to Toledo in 1581, where he successfully applied for a professorship in Greek on the advice of Antonio Covarrubias y Leyva and was accepted into the house of the Archbishop of Toledo . In 1584 he became professor of Greek, rhetoric and history at the University of Saragossa and lived with the Archbishop of Tarragona during this time .

After promising to become a Jesuit if his hometown Antwerp was recaptured for Spain and the Catholic faith, which happened in 1585 , he had to keep that promise. He went to the novitiate after Valencia to there theology study. He then became a teacher at the Collegium in Gandia , then in 1594 as the successor of Franciscus Bencius as a teacher of rhetoric in Rome, where he traveled via Naples . In 1597 he went back to his hometown Antwerp due to an eye problem , where he taught Greek at the collegium of his order and was also a scientist. In 1610 he left Antwerp again for a few months to study in the library of the Benedictines of Tournai .

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SURNAME Schott, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schottus, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jesuit, linguist, publicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1552
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1629
Place of death Antwerp