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