Robert Constantin (1530 ?,

Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Montauban Montauban (, ; oc, Montalban ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, region of Occitania, Southern France. It is the capital of the department and lies north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, an ...

) 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 (1484–1558), with whose children he worked in publishing his ''Poetics'' (Lyon, 1561). He taught at the University of Caen, 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 ( grc-gre, Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, ; 40–90 AD), “the father of pharmacognosy”, was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of ''De materia medica'' (, On Medical Material) —a 5-vol ...

Theophrastus Theophrastus (; grc-gre, Θεόφραστος ; c. 371c. 287 BC), a Greek philosopher and the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He was a native of Eresos in Lesbos.Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin, ''Ancient Botany'', Routledge ...

and the ''De re medica'' by Celsus, an edition of

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and others of Ausonius), but also of bibliographic character (composed with Conrad Gesner (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 ''bibliography ...

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

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

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

. The monumental second edition, 1592, was extended by

Franciscus Portus Franciscus Portus (Latin; Greek: Φραγκίσκος Πόρτος, Italian: Francesco Porto) (1511 – 1581) was a Greek-Italian Renaissance humanist and classical scholar. Biography Born on Crete on 22 August 1511, Portus was orphaned early. H ...

(1511-1581) with important appendices.

Works

*With Conrad Gesner, ''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 Julius Caesar Scaliger, 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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