Scaliger, Joseph Justus
Scaliger, Joseph Justus
Born 1540; died 1609. Eminent classical philologist. Wrote in Latin with idiomatic vivacity. Famed for his knowledge of epigraphy, numismatics and chronology. First European scholar to enter into correspondence with the Samaritans.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Scaliger, Joseph Justus
son of Julius Caesar Scaliger, a learned critic, and his rival in learning and arrogance, was born, in 1540, at Agen, and was educated at the college of Bordeaux, and, finally, by his father and Turnebus. Languages he acquired with wonderful ease, and is said to have been master of no less than thirteen. His friends denominated him an ocean of science, and the masterpiece of nature. He died in 1609, professor of belles lettres at Leyden. His works, most of which are commentaries on the classics, are numerous. Of his other productions, one of the most valuable is the treatise De Emendatione Temporum.