Andreas Schott

Andreas Schott (latinised as Andreas Schottus and Andreas Scottus; 12 September 1552 – 23 January 1629) was an academic, linguist, translator, editor and a Jesuit priest from Antwerp in the Habsburg Netherlands. He was mainly known for his editions of Latin and Greek classical literature.

Life Schott was born in Antwerp as the son of Franciscus Schott and Anna Bosschaert. He had a brother, also called Franciscus, who became a legal scholar, served as mayor and alderman of Antwerp and authored an Italian travel guide. Andreas studied philosophy at the Leuven University's Collegium Trilingue, a college where Latin, Greek and Hebrew were taught. His teachers included Cornelius Valerius for Latin, and Theodoricus Langius for Greek. He graduated in 1573, placing 61st in his year, and began teaching rhetoric at the undergraduate college Paedagogium Castri (Castle College) while undertaking further studies in theology under Michael Baius.

In 1583 Schott resigned his position in Toledo in favour of Pantin, and travelled to Salamanca, before teaching at the University of Zaragoza. Federigo Borromeo thanked Schott for his work with two silver reliquaries containing fragments of clothing worn by Carlo Borromeo. (1579) manuscript from Theodore Poelmann, printed with De Viris illustribus Urbis Romae, De Caesaribus, De Vita et Mortis Imperatorum Romanorum of Pomponius Mela (Antwerp 1582) (1605) by Seneca the rhetorician (1607) Commentarius in Aemilium Probum (1609) commentary on Aemilius Probus (1611) by Diogenianus (1612) by Proclus Diadochus (1615) of Carolus Langus (Carl Lange) Antonini Augusti Provinciarum

Publications by Schott , 1586 1604 Annotationum Spicilegium Antwerp, 1612 1612 Hanoviae, 1615

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