Matthaeus Devarius

Matthaeus Devarius (Italian Matteo Devaris, Greek Ματθαίος Δεβαρής, * around 1505 in Corfu ; † June 13, 1581 in Rome ) was a Greek philologist .

Devarius studied in Rome with Andreas Johannes Laskaris and eventually became librarian to Cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi and in 1541 corrector of the Greek manuscripts at the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana . His main work is a study of the Greek particles first published in 1587 . He also created an index on the commentaries of Eustathios of Thessalonike on the Iliad and the Odyssey .

Fonts

• Liber de graecae linguae particulis . Francesco Zanetti, Rome 1587.
  • De graecae linguae particulis liber. Ad exemplar Romanum cum indicibus necessariis. Sumptibus Wolfgangi Mauricii Endteri, Noribergae 1700, books.google.de ; Editio secunda qua in priori omissa restituuntur. Sumptibus Wolfgangi Mauricii Endteri, Noribergae, 1718, 11115025 in VD 18 .
  • Liber de graecae linguae particulis . Emendavit et notas addidit Ioh. Godfr. Reusmann. Editio altera. Impensis Ioh. Ambr. Barthii, Lipsiae 1793, books.google.de
  • Liber de graecae linguae particulis . Edidit Reinhold Klotz . Baumgärtner, Leipzig 1835/1842 (2 volumes), Vol. I Devarii librum continens , Vol. II Reinholdi Klotzii Adnotationes continens ; Volume 1 further online version , third online version , Volume 2, Dept. 1 further online version
• Tabula, see Index facillimus et utilissimus eorum, quae in Commentariis Eustathii in Iliadem et Odysseam continentur. Antonius Bladus, Rome 1542–1550.
  • Index in Eustathii Commentarios in Homeri Iliadem et Odysseam. Studio Matthaei Devarii. Ad fidem exempli Romani correctior editus. Sumtibus Joann. Aug. Gottl. Weigel, Lipsiae 1828, archive.org . - Part of the edition by Johann Gottfried Stallbaum (Ed.): Eustathii Archiepiscopi Thessalonicensis Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem . 7 volumes. Weigel, Leipzig 1825-1830.

literature

• His nephew Peter tells his life in the preface to the Liber de graecae linguae particulis . Rome 1587.
• Friedrich August Eckstein : Nomenclator philologorum . Leipzig, Teubner 1871. - Complete, corrected text, edited by Johannes Saltzwedel. Hamburg 2005, venturus.de (PDF; 2.8 MB).
• Massimo Ceresa:  Devarìs, Matteo (Matteo Greco o Matteo di Bari). In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 39:  Deodato-DiFalco. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1991.

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthaeus Devarius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Matthaeus Devarius in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Publications by and about Matthaeus Devarius in VD 18 .
• Devaris, Matteo (1500-1581) . CERL thesaurus