Lucas Fruytier, Latinized Fruterius (1541–1566) was a

Neo-Latin Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...

poet from the

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. Fruytier was born in Bruges in 1541. At an early age he gained a reputation for an elegant command of Latin. In Paris in 1565 he became friends with

Janus Dousa Janus Dousa (Latinized from Jan van der Does), Lord of Noordwyck (6 December 1545 – 8 October 1604), was a Dutch statesman, jurist, historian, poet and philologist, and the first Librarian of Leiden University Library. Biography He was born i ...

and Janus Lernutius. He died in Paris in 1566, his early death attributed to drinking cold water too quickly after a vigorous tennis match. Victor Giselinus composed a Latin epitaph.

Publications

His writings were edited for posthumous publication by Janus Dousa: * ''Lucae Fruterii Brugensis, librorum, qui recuperari potuerunt, reliquiae: inter quos Verisimilium libri duo et versus miscelli'' (Antwerp, 1584)On Google Books
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fruytier, Lucas 1541 births 1566 deaths Writers from Bruges 16th-century writers in Latin Poets from the Habsburg Netherlands