Denis Lambin

Denis Lambin, Latin Dionysius Lambinus (* 1520 in Montreuil in Picardy; † September 29, 1572 in Paris) was a French humanist, philologist and scholar.

Life

Lambin studied in Amiens and later in Italy, in 1560 he became professor of Latin and Greek at the Collège de France in Paris. A year later he was offered a chair. Lambin was a friend of Peter Ramus, who was murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day, and feared the same fate, and died of the shock. Lambin was famous for his Latin editions of the classics: Horace ( 1561), Titus Lucretius Carus ( 1564) and the complete works of Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 1566). His Plautuskommentare ( 1576 ) were greatly appreciated.