Scaliger, Giuseppe Giusto (SCALIGERO, GIUSEPPE GIUSTO) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XI, p. 29

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

GIUSEPPE GIUSTO SCALIGERO. — Philologist, born at Agen on 4 Aug. 1540, died at Leiden on 21 Jan. 1609.

Son of the celebrated Giulio Cesare, he adhered to Calvinism (1562), fought with the Huguenots (1567–70); in 1572–74 he was professor at Geneva and from 1593 successor to J. Lipsius at the University of Leiden, which became the centre of philological
SCALIGERO, GIUSEPPE GIUSTO - Portrait. Engraving from the 17th century, after D. P. Freher, Theatrum virorum eruditioni clarorum, Nuremberg 1638, p. 1499. Copy in the Vatican Library.

He edited the Chronicle of Hippolytus. The incorrectness and barbarisms of the Latin language led scholars to designate the anonymous author of the Liber as Scaligeri Barbarus. In his writings he strayed into theological matters, treating them in an anti-Catholic sense, so that some theologians opposed him, especially Fr. D. Petau, who targeted the De emendatione with his Doctrina temporum.

BIBL.: I. Bernays, J. J. Scaliger, Berlin 1855; T. Mommsen, Chronica minora, in MGH, Auct. Antiq., IX, p. 83 (text edition pp. 274-98); I. E. Sandys, History of classical Scholarship, II, Cambridge 1908, pp. 199 ff. Agostino Amore