Claudius Salmasius
Claudius Salmasius, French Claude de Saumaise ( born April 15, 1588 Semur -en- Auxois, † September 3, 1653 in Spa), was a French classical scholar and polymath.
Life
Salmasius was taught by his father, the jurist and the Dijon councilors Benignus Salmasius, in the languages of Greek and Latin. Salmasius studied from 1604 at the Sorbonne, and from 1606 in Heidelberg ( Dionysius Godofredus ) philosophy and law, but then especially philology, what caused him both his correspondence with Joseph Justus Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon and the handwritten treasures of the Bibliotheca Palatina. In Heidelberg he confessed to the Protestant denomination.
After returning to France in 1610, he became a lawyer, but did not practice this profession. The marriage took place in 1623 with Anne Mercier, daughter of philologists Josias Mercier des Bordes, enabled him to an existence as a private scholar, he published, for example, a work on Pliny. The after the death of his father vacated in Dijon city council position was denied on the basis of his confession to him. After he had turned down offers from shiny Venice, London and The Hague, in 1631 he followed a call to the University of Leiden. Here, where he was regarded as a successor to the late decades ago Scaliger, it came to disputes with his wife as well as scientific, theological and political controversy. So Salmasius wrote for Charles II of England, the Defensio regia and therefore slid into an altercation with John Milton.
After a long stay in France, in which he was offered a job, for example Richelieu in his ministry and others sought to win him for a job in the country, he followed a 1650 call of Queen Christina of Sweden, initially only on vacation. However, for health reasons, he returned in 1651 after already suffering. Because of his illness from gout he kept the waters at Spa, where he died of a febrile illness. Salmasius was as eloquent, besides Greek and Latin he had later taught himself Hebrew and ruled also more common in the Orient languages.
Works
- De suburbicariis regionibus, Paris 1619
- Plinianae Exercitationes in Solinum, Paris 1629
- De usuris, Leiden 1638
- De modo usurarum, Leiden 1639
- De foenore Trapezitico, Leiden 1640
- Diatriba de mutuo, Leiden 1640
- De lingua hellenistica et origine ac dialectis Graecae linguae commentarius, Leiden 1643
- Funus linguae hellenisticae, Leiden 1643
- Observationes ad jus Atticum et romanum, Leiden 1645
- De annis climactericis et antiquarian astrologia, Leiden 1648
- De re militarized Romanorum, Leiden 1657
Latin text editions
- Florus (Heidelberg 1609, Leiden 1638)
- Historia Augusta ( Paris 1620, Leiden 1652),
- Tertullian, De pallio (Paris 1622, Leiden 1656)
- Ampelius (behind the Floras of 1638)
Greek text editions
- Simplicius, Commentary on Epictetus, Leiden 1640
- Achilles Tatius, Leiden 1640