Andreas Schott (latinised as ''Andreas Schottus'' and ''Andreas Scottus''; 12 September 1552 – 23 January 1629) was an academic, linguist, translator, editor and a Jesuit priest from Antwerp in the

Habsburg Netherlands Habsburg Netherlands was the Renaissance period fiefs in the Low Countries held by the Holy Roman Empire's House of Habsburg. The rule began in 1482, when the last Valois-Burgundy ruler of the Netherlands, Mary, wife of Maximilian I of Austr ...

. He was mainly known for his editions of Latin and Greek classical literature. Reusch
Schott, Andreas
in the ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'', Volume 32 (1891), pp. 392–393

Life

Schott was born in Antwerp as the son of Franciscus Schott and Anna Bosschaert.

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, "Schott, André", ''

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vol. 22
(Brussels, 1914–1920), 1-14. He had a brother, also called

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, who became a legal scholar, served as mayor and alderman of Antwerp and authored an Italian travel guide.Abraham Jacob van der Aa, ''Biographisch Woordenboek. der Nederlanden''
Volume 17-1, Haarlem 1852-'78, pp. 459-461 Andreas studied philosophy at the Leuven University's

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, a college where Latin, Greek and Hebrew were taught. His teachers included Cornelius Valerius for Latin, and Theodoricus Langius for Greek. He graduated in 1573, placing 61st in his year, and began teaching rhetoric at the undergraduate college Paedagogium Castri (Castle College) while undertaking further studies in theology under

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. One of his students was Peter Pantin (Petrus Pantinus) (1556–1611), who became a longtime companion and lifelong friend. In 1576, with university life disrupted by the Dutch Revolt, Schott and Pantin went to

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, where Schott spent a year as tutor in the household of Philippe de Lannoy, Seigneur de Tourcoing. Subsequently they left for Paris, where in 1577

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took them into his house. Towards the end of the 1579, Schott and Pantin travelled to Spain, spending Christmas in Toledo with

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. In 1580, through the patronage of Antonio de Covarrubias, Schott succeeded Álvar Gómez de Castro as professor of Greek at the Colegio de Santa Catalina in Toledo. In Toledo he became acquainted with Antonius Augustinus, a Spanish humanist historian and jurist, who pioneered the historical research of the sources of canon law. Schott remained in the city for three years as professor of Greek, after brief stays in Salamanca and Saragossa. He lived in the household of the archbishop of Toledo,

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. He also visited Augustinus, who had become archbishop of Tarragona. He was attracted by his great erudition and his rich manuscript collection. When the archbishop died in 1586, Schott published a eulogy at the Plantin Press in Antwerp which he dedicated to his Flemish compatriot

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. Schott assisted Torrentius in obtaining some of the writings of Augustinus. In 1583 Schott resigned his position in Toledo in favour of Pantin, and travelled to

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, before teaching at the

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. On 30 September 1584 he was ordained to the priesthood, and at Easter 1586 he was admitted to the

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. From 1587 to 1592 he studied theology in Valencia. He left Spain in 1594, after 15 years on the peninsula. He then spent three years in Italy, teaching Greek in Rome and studying many hours in the

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. In 1597 he returned to his native Antwerp after an absence of over 20 years. He arrived there on 30 September 1597 after travelling through Munich, Augsburg and Cologne. He spent the next 30 years teaching and writing at the Jesuit college in the city, where his students included Valerius Andreas and

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. Schott died in Antwerp on 23 January 1629, after suffering ten days of intestinal inflammation. As a scholar, he corresponded with

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, and Hugo Grotius, among many others.

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thanked Schott for his work with two silver reliquaries containing fragments of clothing worn by

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Editions by Schott

*' by

Aurelius Victor Sextus Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390) was a historian and politician of the Roman Empire. Victor was the author of a short history of imperial Rome, entitled ''De Caesaribus'' and covering the period from Augustus to Constantius II. The work ...

(1577) *'' Origo gentis romanae'', (1579) manuscript from Theodore Poelmann, printed with ''De Viris illustribus Urbis Romae'', ''De Caesaribus'', ''De Vita et Mortis Imperatorum Romanorum''Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 3, page 1255
*' of

Pomponius Mela Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He was born in Tingentera (now Algeciras) and died AD 45. His short work (''De situ orbis libri III.'') remained in use nearly to the year 1500. It occupies less ...

(Antwerp 1582) *' (1605) *' by Seneca the rhetorician (1607) *''Commentarius in Aemilium Probum'' (1609) commentary on Aemilius Probus *' (1611) *' by

Diogenianus Diogenianus ( el, Διογενειανός, Διογενιανός) was a Greek grammarian from Heraclea in Pontus (or in Caria) who flourished during the reign of Hadrian. He was the author of an alphabetical lexicon, chiefly of poetical words, ...

'' (1612) *' by Proclus Diadochus (1615) *' of Carolus Langus (Carl Lange) *''Antonini Augusti Provinciarum''

Publications by Schott

*', 1586 *' 1604 *''Annotationum Spicilegium'' *' Antwerp, 1612 *' 1612 *' Hanoviae, 1615

Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schott, Andreas 1552 births 1629 deaths Clergy from Antwerp Jesuits of the Spanish Netherlands Flemish philologists Flemish Renaissance humanists 17th-century philologists Flemish Jesuits