Samuel Pitiscus (30 March 1637 – 1 February 1727) is a Dutch historian and classicist. He was a nephew of

Bartholomaeus Pitiscus Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (also ''Barthélemy'' or ''Bartholomeo''; August 24, 1561 – August 24, 1613) was a 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word ''trigonometry''. Biography Pitiscus was bor ...

Biography

Samuel Pitiscus was born in

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as the son of a vicar. His parents were German immigrants coming from Palts. At age sixteen he studied theology in

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and transferred to Groningen in 1655 to continue his studies. Three years later he was appointed as headmaster of the Latin school in his home town. He held this post until 1685 when he accepted a similar position at the Latin school in

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. In 1690 he was asked by a printer to deliver a commentary on the work of

Suetonius Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( ; – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is ''De vita Caesarum'', common ...

and the book was published later that year. In 1713 he revised Rosinus' work on

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antiquities, publishing his ''Lexicon antiquitatum romanarum''. He also published a Dutch-Latin dictionary together with Arnoldus Henricus Westerhovius. Pitiscus retired in 1717 He died in Utrecht.

Works

*''Gaiji Suetonii Tranquilli Opera'' (1690) *''Lexicon antiquitatum Romanarum'' (1713) *''Lexicon Latino-Belgicum novum'' (1729, posthumously)

References

* E.O.G. Haitsma Mulier en G.A.C. van der Lem: ''Repertorium van geschiedschrijvers in Nederland 1500-1800''. Nederlands Historisch Genootschap, Den Haag 1990

External links

* http://www.richardwolf.de/latein/pitiscus.htm * :de:s:ADB:Pitiscus, Samuel {{DEFAULTSORT:Pitiscus, Samuel 1637 births 1727 deaths Dutch classical scholars People from Zutphen