Guillaume Morel (; 1505 – 19 February 1564) was a French
classical scholar
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.
After acting as proof-reader in a
Paris
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firm, he set up for himself, and subsequently succeeded
Turnebus as king's
printer
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in 1555. His most important work was ''Thesaurus vocum omnium latinarum'', containing a number of quotations from Latin authors, taken from hitherto unpublished manuscripts in the Paris library.
He died in Paris.
References
1505 births
1564 deaths
People from the Province of Normandy
French classical scholars
French printers
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