Andreas Schott (Jesuit)
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 .
Publications (selection)
- Authorship
- Vitae comparatae Aristotelis ac Demosthenis , Augsburg, 1603 ( digital ).
- De instauranda Ciceronis imitatione, Tournai , 1610 ( digital ).
- Adagia Graecorum , Antwerp, 1612 ( digital ).
- Tabulae rei nummariae Romanorum Graecorumque , Antwerp, 1616 ( digital ).
- Adagialia sacra Novi Testamenti , Antwerp, 1629 ( digital ).
- Editing
- De vita et moribus imperatorum romanorum , Antwerp, 1579 ( digital ).
- Pomponii Melae De situ orbis spicilegio auctus , Antwerp, 1582 ( doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-29862 ).
- Sex. Aurelii Victoris Historiae Romanae Breviarium , Heidelberg, 1596 ( digital ).
- Hispaniae illustratae Scriptores varii , 3 volumes, Frankfurt am Main, 1603–1608 ( digital ).
- B. Hieronymi epistolarum selectarum libri tres , Tournai, 1610 ( digital ).
- S. Isidori Pelusiotae epistolae hactenus ineditae , Antwerp, 1623 ( digital ).
literature
- Franz Heinrich Reusch : Schott, Andreas (Jesuit) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 392 f.
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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 |