Bonaventura Vulcanius

Bonaventura Vulcanius (* June 30, 1538 in Bruges, † October 9, 1614 ) was a Flemish scholar, translator and humanist.

He was (actually Peter de Smed or de Smit, * 1503, † 1571), the son of Peter Vulcanius born, a Flemish humanist Erasmus friend in the West Flanders town of Bruges in the Spanish Netherlands. He studied first in Ghent, then medicine at the University of Louvain, including Johann Otho and finally at the University of Cologne as a pupil of Georg Cassander philosophy and literature. In 1559 he became secretary of the Spanish Cardinal and Bishop of Burgos Francisco de Mendoza y Bobadilla ( 1508-1566 ). After his death, he joined the brother of Cardinal Fernando de Mendoza the services, archdeacon of Toledo turn up to his death in 1570th about his birth city of Bruges, he went back to Cologne where he was only a job as a tutor and then a professorship received for Greek. At least here it seems to have come to a turning to Protestantism. From Cologne he went to Geneva and Basel, where he worked with the printers Henri Estienne (for the Zinner made a translation of the story of Alexander Arrian ) and Ambrosius Frobenius. From there, led him in 1577 to be the way to Antwerp, to the house of Philips van Marnix, a confidant of William of Orange, where he worked as a secretary and tutor.

In 1581 he finally obtained a professorship at Leiden University as a professor of Latin and Greek. In the thirty years he taught there, he could count among his students, among others, Hugo Grotius and Daniel Heinsius. He worked there with the printer and publisher Franciscus Raphelengius ( 1539-1597 ). He published, among other things, a translation of parts of the Codex argenteus from the Gothic.

After his death, the bulk of his manuscripts and books went to the Leiden University Library.

Works

  • De Literis et lingua Getarum immersive Gothorum, Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden) 1597
  • Thesaurus linguae utriusque, Lugduni Batavorum 1600
  • Onomasticon vocum latino - Graecarum, Lugdunum Batavorum 1600
  • Humanist
  • Philologist ( Medieval and Early Modern Times )
  • Literature ( New Latin )
  • University teachers (University of Leiden)
  • Born in 1538
  • Died in 1614
  • Man
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