Michael Maittaire
Michael Maittaire ( Latinized Michael Maittairius ; * 1668 in France , † 1747 in London ) was an English scholar, philologist and writer of French origin.
Life
Maittaire, the son of Huguenot parents, was born in France. After the family moved to England, he attended Westminster School in London. After graduating, he worked in the Vaillant family's printing press in The Hague . 1696 he makes his MA at Christ Church College of Oxford University . From 1695 to 1699 he was a teacher and assistant principal at the Westminster School in London. From 1699 he worked exclusively as a private scholar.
His main works are "De Graecae Lunguae Dialectis in usum Scholae Westmonasteriensis" (1706) and "The English Grammar or An Essay on the Art of Grammar, applied to and exemplified in the English tongue" (1712)
He is the author of three Latin tragedies, a comprehensive adaptation of Virgil's Aeneid : The Fall of Troy , Dido and The Journey into the Underworld .
The handwritten original of the three tragedies was discovered in 2006 after more than 250 years by classical scholars from the Ruhr University in Bochum in the Oxford Bodleian Library.
Fonts
- De Graecae Lunguae Dialectis in usum Scholae Westmonasteriensis , London 1706
- Stephanorum historia, vitas ipsorum ac libros complectens , Londres 1709
- The English Grammar or An Essay on the Art of Grammar, applied to and exemplified in the English tongue , London 1712
- Historia Typographorum aliquot Parisiensium Vitas et Libros complectens , London: G. Bowyer for C. Bateman, 1717
- Annales Typographici , The Hague 1719
expenditure
- Reinhold F. Glei (ed.): Virgilius Cothurnatus - Virgil in the theater. Three Latin tragedies by Michael Maittaire (= NeoLatina 12). Narr, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-8233-6238-0 (critical edition with translation)
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Maittaire in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bochum classical philologists publish rediscovered manuscript: "Virgil in the Schauspielhaus" by Michael Maittaire
- "Detectives of the Libraries" (PDF file; 656 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maittaire, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maittairius, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English scholar, philologist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1668 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1747 |
| Place of death | London |