About Gottschalk Stewech
Lived 1551 – 1586 (aged 34–35). Gottschalk Stewech was a historian, philologist, humanist and university teacher.
Godescalcus Stewechius (or Gottschalk Stewech; 1557 – ) was a Dutch humanist from Heusden. He studied at Louvain University. Beginning in 1578, he lived in Cologne, Toul and Langres to escape the war in the Netherlands. He became a professor at the University of Pont-à-Mousson and around 1587 visited Trier to see some manuscripts. He died there.
In 1585, he edited a collection of Roman military treatises by Flavius Vegetius Renatus (De re militari), Sextus Julius Frontinus, Aelianus and Pseudo-Modestus (De vocabulis rei militaris), as well as extracts from Polybius on the construction of a military encampment and his own commentary.
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Who was Gottschalk Stewech?
Dutch historian (1551–1586)
When was Gottschalk Stewech born?
Gottschalk Stewech was born in 1551 in Heusden.
When did Gottschalk Stewech die?
Gottschalk Stewech died in 1586 in Trier.
What was Gottschalk Stewech's occupation?
Gottschalk Stewech was a historian, philologist, humanist and university teacher.
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