Bonaventura Vulcanius, Brugge 1588-Leiden 1614

Description:

"The last of the Renaissance humanists, Bonaventura Vulcanius, is still a mysterious figure, even though he left a correspondence, at least two Alba amicorum, and a collection of books and manuscripts. Born in Bruges in 1538, the son of a disciple of Erasmus, he spent the troubled decades of 1560 and 1570 in wanderings before his appointment in 1581 as a Professor for Greek and Latin Letters at the University of Leiden. He edited and translated many a rare text, composed dictionaries, sent laudatory poems, and compiled the first chapters of a history of Germanic languages. This volume gathers recent research on this versatile philologist, and includes the first edition of many unpublished works and documents."--

subjects: Poets,  Intellectual life,  Philology,  Humanists,  Philologists,  Renaissance,  Scholars,  Biography,  History,  Poets, biography,  Europe, intellectual life,  Bruges (belgium),  Belgium, biography,  Filologi,  Historia,  Humanister (renässansen),  Biografi

People: Bonaventura Vulcanius (1538-1614)

Places: Belgium,  Europe,  Bruges (Belgium),  Leiden (Netherlands)

Times: 16th century