ADRIANUS [ADRIEN TURNEBE]

TURNEBUS (1512–1565)  , French classical scholar, was born at Les Andelys in Normandy . At the age of twelve' he was sent to Paris to study, and attracted great notice by his remarkable abilities . After having held the post of professor of belles-lettres in the university of Toulouse, in 1547 he returned to Paris as professor (or royal reader) of Greek at the College Royal . In 1552 he was entrusted with the printing of the Greek books at the royal press, in which he was assisted by his friend, Guillaume Morel (q.v.) . He died of consumption on the lath of June 1565 . His works chiefly consist of philological dissertations, commentaries (on Aeschylus, Sophocles, Theophrastus, Philo and portions of Cicero), and translations of Greek authors into Latin and French . His son, Etienne, published his complete works, in three volumes (Strassburg, 1600), and his son Adrien his Adversaria, containing explanations and emendations of numerous passages in dassical authors . See Oratio funebris by Leger du Chesne (Leodegarius a Quercu) prefixed to the Strassburg edition; L . Clement, De Adriani Turnebi praefationibus et poematis (1899); J . E . Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship (1908) iii .