Willem Canter
Illustration — Copper engraving of Willem Canter (c. 1700) Willem Canter (1542–1575) was a classical scholar from Utrecht. He edited the Eclogues of Stobaeus and the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus.
Willem Canter
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- Born
- 1542 · Leeuwarden.
- Died
- 1575 · Leuven.
- Nationality
- Holy Roman Empire
- Occupation
- translator · hellenist · writer · philologist
- Education
- Old University of Leuven · University of Paris
- Teachers
- Macropedius · Jean Daurat · Joseph Justus Scaliger
- Languages
- Dutch · German · French
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Illustration — Copper engraving of Willem Canter (c. 1700) Willem Canter (1542–1575) was a classical scholar from Utrecht. He edited the Eclogues of Stobaeus and the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus.
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Canter studied under Jean Daurat in Paris before becoming an independent scholar in Louvain. His Ratio emendandi (Basle, 1566) was a guide to editing and textual criticism. He also translated the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides into Latin.
• Novae Lectiones, 1564 • Ratio emendandi, 1566 • Evripidis Tragoediae XIX, 1571 • Sophoclis tragoediae VII, 1579
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Willem Canter is recorded as translator, hellenist, writer and philologist.
Willem Canter, dutch philologist (1542 - 1575)
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1542
Willem Canter born at Leeuwarden.
1575
Willem Canter died at Leuven.
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Canter, Willem, Der Neue Pauly Supplemente I Online - Band 6: Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften: Biographisches Lexikon
Canter, Willem, Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 6: History of classical Scholarship - A Biographical Dictionary
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Willem Canter studied at Old University of Leuven and University of Paris. He trained under Macropedius, Jean Daurat and Joseph Justus Scaliger.
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