Stephanos Matthaios

Ancient scholarship and grammar : archetypes, concepts and contexts

F. Montanari, R. Hunter, M. Fantuzzi, S. Matthaios, F. Pontani, R. Nuenlist, M. Schmidt, J. Lundon, B.K. Braswell, P. Bing, S. Chronopoulos, K. Spanoudakis, J. Lallot, L. Basset, Ph. Probert, I. Sluiter, A. Wouters, P. Swiggers, W. Ax, F. Lambert, G. Bonnet, L. Visser, V. van Elst, M. Billerbeck, C. de Jonge, A. Luhtala, M. Chriti.

Du Cange, Charles du Fresne, Sieur (1610–1688)

Sieur Charles du Fresne Du Cange was a scholar, historian and lexicographer, friend of Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741), the founder of scientific palaeography and codicology. Du Cange came from a wealthy family, which was for centuries in the service of the royal house of France. He was born in 1610 in Amiens and attended the Jesuit college in his hometown, studied law in Orleans, and finally became an advocate, a profession which he never practiced. In 1638, he married Catherine Dupos, daughter of the treasurer of Amiens; in 1645 he succeeded his father-in-law in this position, dying in 1698 in the same town.

Planudes, Maximus (1260–1310)

Maximus Planudes was one of the most important figures in Byzantine philology, grammar, and scholarship and was one of the main representatives of the so-called ‘Palaiologan Renaissance,’ the prosperous period of the last two centuries of the Byzantine era.

Stephanus, Henricus (1531–1598)

Henricus Stephanus was a scholar, philologist, and publisher, one of the most important representatives of humanism and the French renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries, along with Guillame Bude (1468–1540) and Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609). Henri E(s)tienne, the eldest son of Robert E(s)tienne, was born in Paris in 1531 and died in Lyon in 1598. From early on, he attended lectures on classical philology in the College Royal of Paris. Apart from Latin, which he knew almost at the level of mother tongue, Henri also learnt Greek, for which he showed a great love and impressive familiarity. The offspring of one of the most well-known publishing dynasties in France, Henri undertook the directorship of the family printing house after his fathers death in 1559. His father Robert, who directed the business initially in Paris and then in Geneva, was also engaged as an author, printer, and editor; on the publishing activities of the E(s)tienne family see Pattison (1889) and Widmann (1970).