Arnoldus Arlenius

Arnoldus Arlenius Peraxylus, (* around 1510 in Aarle , † 1582 in Florence ), born as Arndt or Arnout van Eyndhouts or van Eynthouts , also known as Arnoud de Lens , was a Dutch humanist philosopher and poet.

He was born in Aarle near Helmond , (according to some reports, 's-Hertogenbosch ), Noord Brabant , Netherlands , at that time part of the Habsburg possession. He studied with Macropedius and later traveled to Paris and Ferrara and studied for 5 years at the University of Bologna . He became a first-class Greek specialist and made a living from the book trade and the role of a talent scout for the Basel printing works, arranging the publication of books such as Caelius Rhodiginus' Lectiones antiquae .

In 1542 he traveled to Venice , where he worked as the librarian of the Spanish ambassador, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza , found new texts and organized the transcription of documents that led him to travel to Frankfurt and Florence. He cataloged Mendoza's collection of Greek manuscripts. Based on manuscripts that can be found in Mendoza's extensive library, he made the first printed Greek version of the works of Josephus in 1544 . These were published by Hieronymus Froben in Basel and for many years they were the basis of all existing translations from the Greek. He was also responsible for the publication of important early editions of Lycophron (Basel, 1546) and Niccolò Perotti 's Latin translations of Polybius (Basel, 1549). His Greek-Latin lexicon was published in Venice in 1546.

He later worked as an editor for the printer Lorenzo Torrentino and acquired books and manuscripts for Johann Jakob Fugger . In 1556 he was responsible for the publication of an edition of Plato's works in Basel, based on the 1534 edition of the scholar Simon Grynaeus , which he corrected personally with the help of Plato's manuscripts that he had collected in Italy. This edition is described by the classical scholar Myles Burnyeat as "one of the most barbaric ligatures ever printed".

literature

• Charles Anthon: A Manual of Greek Literature from the Earliest Authentic Periods to the Close of Byzantine Era . New York 1853 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anthony Hobson: Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings . S. 72-74 (English).
2. ^ MF Burnyeat: Plato . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 111 . Oxford University Press, 2001 (English, thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).