Willem Canter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Willem Canter

Dutch philologist

Date of Birth: 03-Aug-1542

Place of Birth: Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 15-Jun-1575

Profession: writer, translator, classical scholar, classical philologist, hellenist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Willem Canter (1542-1575) was a classical scholar from Utrecht.
He edited the Eclogues of Stobaeus and the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus.Canter studied under Jean Daurat in Paris before becoming an independent scholar in Louvain.
His Ratio emendandi (Basle, 1566) was a guide to editing and textual criticism.
He also translated the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides into Latin.