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Willem Canter

Dutch classical scholar (1542–1575) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Willem Canter
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Willem Canter (1542–1575) was a classical scholar from Utrecht. He edited the Eclogues of Stobaeus and the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus.[1]

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Copper engraving of Willem Canter (c.1700)

Canter studied under Jean Daurat in Paris before becoming an independent scholar in Louvain.[1] His Ratio emendandi (Basle, 1566) was a guide to editing and textual criticism.[2] He also translated the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides into Latin.[3]

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Works

  • Novae Lectiones, 1564
  • Ratio emendandi, 1566
  • Evripidis Tragoediae XIX, 1571
  • Sophoclis tragoediae VII, 1579

References

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