Macropedius
Dutch humanist · Writers · Lived 1487 to 1558 · aged 71
Georgius Macropedius was a Dutch humanist, schoolmaster and "the greatest Latin playwright of the 16th century."
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Saint Jerome's in Utrecht in the 17th century. Drawing by J. Liefland, Utrecht 1857.
Title page of Macropedius' Methodus de Conscribendis Epistolis, printed in 1649 by Abraham Miller in London, 106 years after the first edition. Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA.
First edition of Macropedius' Hecastus, printed by Johannes Hillen in Antwerp 1539. Tilburg University Library.
Title page of Sven Dalius' Swedish translation of Hecastus, printed by Lars Loehnbohm in Goeteborg in 1681. Royal Library, StockholmAbout this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1487 to 1558 · aged 71
