biography
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Lipsius, Justus
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also known as Joest Lips
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pronunciation:
[lipsius]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1547–1606)
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| biography:
| Humanist and Classical scholar, born in Issche, C Belgium. Professor of Classics at Jena, Leyden, and Louvain, he was successively Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and once more Catholic. Noted for his essays in moral and political theory, his writings also include important editions of the Latin prose texts of Tacitus (1574) and Seneca (1605). |
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