Catherine Tishem
Catherine Tishem (actually Catherine Fisher , also Catherine Thysmans ; * in Norwich ; † probably 1595) was an English scholar who is received several times in literature.
Life
Today nothing is known about the origin of her family. In 1558 she married the merchant and mayor of Antwerp, Walter (Wouter) de Gruutere († 1588 in Gdansk ), who had previously been married as a widower. With him she had a son, Jan Gruter . During the Dutch War of Liberation ("Spanish-Dutch War"), the family fled to Great Britain in 1565 , where Catherine came from.
She herself was fluent in Greek , Latin , French and Italian , probably also Dutch and German . Catherine Tishem knew how to master both the old and the new languages perfectly; It is said of her that she could understand the writings of the doctor Galenus , a circumstance that few contemporaries are likely to have been able to do. She oversaw the upbringing of her son, who became a famous classical scholar. She also supported him during his Cambridge studies until he moved to the University of Leiden in 1579 .
Appreciation
Knowledge about your life has been preserved mainly through the literary work of Balthasar Venator , who had her son Jan as a teacher and from whom she should have learned her biography. On the occasion of Jan Gruter's death, Venator wrote an extensive memorial that provides insights far beyond Gruter's actual life. He writes of Catherine Tishem that she had a scholarship like no other English woman in her day.
Furthermore, it was included in the biography collection Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain, who have been celebrated for their writings, or skill in the learned languages, arts and sciences in 1752 by the biographer and antiquarian George Ballard .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Catherine Fisher
- ↑ Jane Stevenson: Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, And Authority, From Antiquity To The Eighteenth Century , Oxford University Press 2005, ISBN 9780198185024 , p. 238
- ↑ a b Mary Hays: Female Biography; Or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women 1803, p. 435
- ↑ Balthasar Venator: Panegyricus Jan Grutero scriptus . 1631.
literature
- Mary Hays: Female Biography; Or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries , Volume 6, Richard Phillips Verlag 1803, p. 435
- Leonard Forster: Janus Gruter's English years. Studies in the continuity of Dutch literature in exile in Elizabethan England . (= Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute / Special series 3). University Press, Leiden 1967
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tishem, Catherine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fisher, Catherine (real name); Thysmans, Catherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English scholars |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norwich |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 1595 |