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Born November 11, 1668 • Leipzig • Germany
Died April 30, 1736 (aged 67)
Notable Works “Bibliotheca Graeca” • “Bibliotheca Latina” • “Bibliotheca Latina mediae et infimae aetatis” • “Bibliotheca antiquaria” • “Centifolium Lutheranum” • “Decas decadum, Sive plagiariorum et pseudonymorum centuria”
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Bentley
British scholar
Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
Joachim Camerarius
German scholar and theologian
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
German scholar
Reiske, engraving, 1770
Johann Jakob Reiske
German scholar
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Martial
Roman poet
Quintilian
Roman rhetorician
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Titus Pomponius Atticus
Roman author
Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar
Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
James Mark Baldwin
American philosopher and psychologist
Bale, John
John Bale
English bishop and author
Isaac Casaubon
French scholar

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