André Schott

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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. He was mainly known for his editions of Latin and Greek classical literature.[1]

Life

Schott was born in Antwerp as the son of Franciscus Schott and Anne Bosschart.[2] He had a brother, also called Franciscus, who became a legal scholar and served as mayor and alderman of Antwerp.[3] Andreas studied philosophy at the Leuven University's Collegium Trilingue, 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 Michael Baius.[2] One of his students was Pierre Pantin (1556–1611), who became a longtime companion and lifelong friend.[2]

In 1576, with university life disrupted by the Dutch Revolt, Schott and Pantin went to Douai, 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 Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq took them into his house.[1] Towards the end of the 1579, Schott and Pantin travelled to Spain, spending Christmas in Toledo with William Damasus Lindanus, bishop of Roermond. 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.[2] He taught in Toledo for three years, while living in the household of the archbishop, Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela. In 1583 he resigned his position in favour of Pantin, and travelled to Salamanca, before teaching at the University of Zaragoza.[2] On 30 September 1584 he was ordained to the priesthood, and at Easter 1586 he was admitted to the Society of Jesus.

Schott completed the Jesuit noviciate at Zaragoza, and from 1587 to 1592 studied theology at Valencia. He left Spain in 1594, after 15 years on the peninsula, and spent three years in Italy, teaching Greek in Rome and spening many hours in the Vatican Library.[2] In 1597 he returned to his native Antwerp after an absence of over 20 years, arriving there on 30 September 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 Gaspar Gevartius. Schott died in Antwerp on 23 January 1629, after suffering ten days of intestinal inflamation.[2]

As a scholar, he corresponded with Abraham Ortelius, Justus Lipsius, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, and Hugo Grotius, among many others.[4] Federigo Borromeo thanked Schott for his work with two silver reliquaries containing fragments of clothing worn by Carlo Borromeo.[2]

Editions by Schott

Hispania illustrata, 4th volume, 1608
  • De viris illvstribvs vrbis Romæ liber falsò hactenus Corn. Nepoti, vel C. Plinio Caecilio inscriptus by Aurelius Victor (1577)
  • Origo gentis romanae,[5] (1579) manuscript from Theodore Poelmann, printed with De Viris illustribus Urbis Romae, De Caesaribus, De Vita et Mortis Imperatorum Romanorum[6]
  • De situ orbis spicelegio auctus of Pomponius Mela (Antwerp 1582)
  • Tabulae rei nummariae Romanorum Graecorumque (1605)
  • L. Annaei Senecae philosophi et M. Annaei Senecae rhetoris qvae extant opera. by Seneca the rhetorician (1607)
  • Commentarius in Aemilium Probum (1609) commentary on Aemilius Probus
  • Photii bibliotheca graeco-latina (1611)
  • Adagia sive Proverbia Graecorvm by Diogenianus (1612)
  • Observationvm hvmanorvm lib. V. quibus Græci Latiniq[ue] scriptores, philologi, poetæ, historici, oratores & philosophi emendatur by Proclus Diadochus (1615)
  • In Ciceronem Annotationes: Quibus lectiora eiusdem carmina accedunt of Carolus Langus (Carl Lange)
  • Antonini Augusti Provinciarum

Publications by Schott

  • Hispania illustrata 1604
  • Annotationum Spicilegium
  • Adagia sive Proverbia Graecorum Antwerp, 1612
  • Adagia sacra Novi Testamenti 1612
  • Observationum Humanarum libri V Hanoviae, 1615

Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 Reusch, Schott, Andreas in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 32 (1891), pp. 392–393 Script error: No such module "In lang".
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Alphonse Roersch, "Schott, André", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 22 (Brussels, 1914–1920), 1-14.
  3. Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Biographisch Woordenboek. der Nederlanden, Volume 17-1, Haarlem 1852-'78, pp. 459-461 Script error: No such module "In lang".
  4. Guillaume H.M. Posthumus Meyjes (ed.), Hugo Grotius, Meletius sive De iis quae inter Christianos conveniunt Epistola: Critical Edition with Translation, Commentary and Introduction, Brill 1988, p. 33, n. 67
  5. Anonymous, Origo Gentis Romanae: The Origin of the Roman People (2004). Preface.
  6. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 3, page 1255 Archived 28 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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