Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 6 : History of classical Scholarship - A Biographical Dictionary

Italian Humanist. Born c. 1400, probably in Arezzo, died before 26. 4. 1466, probably in Rome. 1423–1433 Humanist studies in Mantua with Vittorino da Feltre; 1433–1435 prof. at the Studio in Florence. 1435–1437 studying in Constantinople; 1445 doctor of theology at Bologna. 1450–1455 bibliothecarius of the library of Pope Nicholas V (the future Bibliotheca Vaticana) at Rome c. 1450–1455. Work and influence T. came into contact with the Florentine culture of the early 15th cent. while still a child. He was able to pursue the interest in Greek kindled in childhood during a stay studying at Constantinople. Like his friend Lorenzo Valla, T. was one of the pioneers in the study of the Latin language, in which he sought support in ancient authorities through a broad study of the sources. Apart from a minor medical essay [2], his chief work is the treatise De orthographia…

British historian. Born London 14. 4. 1889, died York 22. 10. 1975. Attended Winchester College. Studied history at Heidelberg and Balliol College, Oxford. Worked for the British Foreign Office during World War I (War Propaganda Bureau; Political Intelligence Department) and World War II (Foreign Research and Press Service). Took part in the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 as a Near Eastern specialist. 1919–1924 Koraës Prof. of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at K…

German classical philologist and medievalist. Born Berlin 19. 6. 1861, died Munich 19. 5. 1907. Abitur 1880; then studied classical philology and medieval studies at Munich and briefly at Greifswald. 1883 doctorate at Munich; habil. there 1888. Various tours of Italy. From 1904, prof. of medieval Latin philology at Munich. From 1899 full member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, from 1902 of the Accademia dei Lincei. Died of leukaemia at just 46 years of age. Career, works and influence While still at school, T. drew acclaim for a critical review, which was even…

German classical archaeologist. Born St. Petersburg 29. 3. 1843, died Dresden 5. 10. 1921. 1862–1865 studied archaeology and philology at Berlin. Then working as a teacher in St. Petersburg, and assistant at the Hermitage. 1874 doctorate at Göttingen; 1875 habil. at Berlin. Assistant to the director of the Antiquarium at the Königliche Museen, Berlin. 1877–1881 archaeological director of excavations at Olympia. 1882–1915 director of the Skulpturensammlung at Dresden. 1882–1909 prof. at the Technische Hochschule and Kunst-Akademie there. Work and influence T. began by studyi…

Real name Johannes Heidenberg/Zeller; also Johannes Tritheim; German Humanist. Born Trittenheim (T. called himself Tritemius after his place of birth) 1. 2. 1462, died Würzburg 13. 12. 1516. Studied at Trier and Heidelberg (without graduating). Entered the Benedictine monastery of Sponheim near Bad Kreuznach in 1482; elected abbot in 1483. Irreconcilable differences with (some of) the monks in 1505 led to the search for a new position. 1506 moved to the Abbey of St. Jakob in Würzburg; elected abbot there shortly after his arrival. Work and influence T. left a substantial oeuvre re…

Greek classical archaeologist. Born Stenimachos (now Asenovgrad, Bulgaria) 1857, died Athens 9. 6. 1934. After completing school in Athens and starting to study engineering in Hannover, changed to archaeology and philology at Munich and Jena. Doctorate Jena 1880. 1883–1904 ephor for the Greek antiquities service. 1904–1924 prof. of archaeology at Athens; 1909–1911 secretary-general of the Archaeological Society of Athens. Retirement 1926/27 followed by teaching at the newly-founded Univ. of Thessaloniki; 1926 founder member of the Academy of Athens. Work and influence T. was…

Adrien (de) Turnèbe, also Tournebus; French Humanist and philosopher. Born Les Andelys (Normandy) 1512, died Paris 12. 6. 1565. 1523 admission to Paris Collège de Justice, 1532 magister artium, then teaching at the¶ Collège de Justice and the Collège de Sainte-Barbe; 1545 lecturer at Toulouse. 1547 prof. ( lecteur royal) in Greek and Latin at Collège Royal ( Collège de France) in Paris, from 1561 in ancient philosophy. 1551–1556 imprimeur royal pour les livres grecs, succeeding Robertus Stephanus. Work and influence Like Jean Dorat, T. was a student of Jacques Toussain/Tus(s…

British papyrologist. Born Sheffield 26. 2. 1911, died Inverness 20. 4. 1983. 1930–1937 studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, teachers including Gilbert Murray, Henry Michael Denne Parker, Harold Idris Bell and Hugh Last, who in 1934 directed his attention towards papyri. From 1936, assistant in humanities, 1938 lecturer in classics at King’s College in Aberdeen. January 1941–June 1945, employed by the British Foreign Office in the intelligence service (Bletchley Park). 1948 reader, then 1950–1978 prof. of papyrology at Univ. College London (UCL), 1…

Torsellini, Orazio; Italian Humanist and scholar. Born Rome 1545, died Florence 1599 (or 6. 4. 1609). Initially teacher at Collegium Romanum in Rome, then head of the Jesuit colleges in Rome, Florence and Loreto. Life and works T. wrote several historical works, including a life of the founder-member of the Society of Jesus, Francis Xavier. His most important historical work was the Historiarum epitomae [2] in ten books. It became the most widely-read Catholic history textbook of the 17th cent., circulating in many European countries well into the 18th cent…