Robert Constantin (1530 ?,

Caen Caen (; ; ) is a Communes of France, commune inland from the northwestern coast of France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Calvados (department), Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inha ...

– 27 December 1605,

Montauban Montauban (, ; ) is a commune in the southern French department of Tarn-et-Garonne. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, and the sixth most populated of Oc ...

) was a 16th-century French physician, hellenist, bibliographer, lexicographer and humanist.

Biography

Robert Constantin studied and practiced the art of medicine and was a pupil of

Julius Caesar Scaliger Julius Caesar Scaliger (; 23 April or August 1484 – 21 October 1558), or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France. He employed the techniques and discoveries of Renaissance ...

(1484–1558), with whose children he worked in publishing his ''Poetics'' (Lyon, 1561). He taught at the

University of Caen The University of Caen Normandy (French: ''Université de Caen Normandie''), also known as Unicaen, is a public university in Caen, France. History The institution was founded in 1432 by John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, the first rector ...

, where he achieved a reputation as a Hellenist and physician and was alderman of Montauban from 1571, where he died in 1605. Among other works, especially philological (corrections of

Dioscorides Pedanius Dioscorides (, ; 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of (in the original , , both meaning "On Materia medica, Medical Material") , a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic phar ...

Theophrastus Theophrastus (; ; c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek Philosophy, philosopher and Natural history, naturalist. A native of Eresos in Lesbos, he was Aristotle's close colleague and successor as head of the Lyceum (classical), Lyceum, the ...

and the ''De re medica'' by

Celsus Celsus (; , ''Kélsos''; ) was a 2nd-century Greek philosopher and opponent of early Christianity. His literary work '' The True Word'' (also ''Account'', ''Doctrine'' or ''Discourse''; Greek: )Hoffmann p.29 survives exclusively via quotati ...

, an edition of

Hippocrates Hippocrates of Kos (; ; ), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the Classical Greece, classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is traditionally referr ...

and others of

Ausonius Decimius Magnus Ausonius (; ) was a Latin literature, Roman poet and Education in ancient Rome, teacher of classical rhetoric, rhetoric from Burdigala, Gallia Aquitania, Aquitaine (now Bordeaux, France). For a time, he was tutor to the future E ...

), but also of bibliographic character (composed with

Conrad Gesner Conrad Gessner (; ; 26 March 1516 – 13 December 1565) was a Old Swiss Confederacy, Swiss physician, natural history, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. Born into a poor family in Zürich, Switzerland, his father and teachers quickly ...

(1516-1565), the first

bibliography Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliograph ...

published in French soil, the ''Nomenclator insignium scriptorium'', 1555). In

lexicography Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretical le ...

, the ''Lexicon Graeco-Latinum'' (1562) was, along the ''Thesaurus Linguae Graecae'' by

Robert Estienne Robert I Estienne (; 15037 September 1559), known as ''Robertus Stephanus'' in Latin and sometimes referred to as ''Robert Stephens'', was a 16th-century printer in Paris. He was the proprietor of the Estienne print shop after the death of his f ...

, one of the most popular dictionaries for many centuries, whose composition was helped by

Jean Crespin Jean Crespin (c.1520 – 12 April 1572) was a French Protestant lawyer who became a significant printer and martyrologist in Geneva. Life He was born at Arras and studied law at Leuven. In 1540 he was in Paris, where he worked with his friend ...

. The monumental second edition, 1592, was extended by

Franciscus Portus Franciscus Portus (Greek: Φραγκίσκος Πόρτος; Italian: ''Francesco Porto''; 22 August 1511 – 5 June 1581) was a Greek-Italian Renaissance humanist and classical scholar. Biography Born on 22 August 1511 in Rethymno, Venetian Cr ...

(1511-1581) with important appendices.

Works

*With

, ''Nomenclator insignium scriptorum quorum libri extant vel manuscripti vel impressi ex bibliothecis Galliae et Angliae, indexque totius Bibliothecae atque Pandectarum'' Paris, André Wechel, 1555. *''Annotationes et correctiones lemmatum in Dioscoridem'' (1558) *''Annotationes et correctiones in C. Celsum'' (1566) *''Annotationes in historias Theophrasti'' (1584) *''Aphorismi Hippocratis versibus Graecis et Latinis'' *''Tratado de Antigüedades griegas y latinas'' . *''Lexicon Graeco-Latinum'', 1562, 2.ª ed. 1592. * ''Commentarii et animadversiones in sex libros Plantarum Theophrasti'' de

, 1566.

Bibliography

* Michel Magnien, "Robert Constantin, éditeur de Jules César Scaliger", ''Esculape et Dionysos. Mélanges en l'honneur de Jean Céard'', Genève, Droz, 2008, p. 1045-1063.

External links

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