Editing Adrianus Turnebus

{{short description|French classical scholar}}
[[Image:Adrianus Turnebus - Imagines philologorum.jpg|right|thumb|Adrien Turnèbe]]

'''Adrianus Turnebus''' ({{langx|fr|Adrien Turnèbe}} or ''Tournebeuf''; 1512{{snd}}12 June 1565) was a French classical scholar.

==Life==
Turnebus was born in [[Les Andelys]] in [[Normandy]]. At the age of twelve he was sent to Paris to study, and attracted great notice by his remarkable abilities. After having held the post of professor of ''belles-lettres'' in the [[University of Toulouse]], in 1547 he returned to Paris as professor (or royal reader) of [[Greek literature|Greek]] at the [[Collège de France|College Royal]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Turnebus, Adrianus|volume=27|page=474}}</ref> In 1562 he exchanged this post for a professorship in [[Greek philosophy]].<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Adrian Turnebus}}</ref>

In 1552 he was entrusted with the printing of the Greek books at the royal press, in which he was assisted by his friend, [[Guillaume Morel]].<ref name="EB1911"/> [[Joseph Justus Scaliger]] was his pupil. He died of [[tuberculosis]] on 12 June 1565 in Paris.

[[Montaigne]] wrote that he "knew more and better, what he knew, than any man in his age or of many ages past".<ref>''Essays'', book II, ch. 17 (Florio translation)</ref>

He was the father of [[Odet de Turnèbe]].

==Works==
His works chiefly consist of [[philology|philological]] dissertations, commentaries (on [[Aeschylus]], [[Sophocles]], [[Theophrastus]], [[Philo Judaeus|Philo]] and portions of [[Cicero]]), and translations of Greek authors into [[Latin]] and [[French language|French]]. His son Étienne published his complete works in three volumes (Strassburg, 1600), and his son Adrien published his ''Adversaria'', containing explanations and emendations of numerous passages by classical authors.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-02-62.html |title=Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.02.62 |access-date=2010-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505160604/http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-02-62.html |archive-date=2010-05-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="EB1911"/>

==Notes==
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==References==
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*''Oratio funebris'' by [[André Duchesne|Léger du Chesne]] (Leodegarius a Quercu) prefixed to the Strassburg edition.  
*L. Clement, ''De Adriani Turnebi praefationibus et poematis'' (1899).
*[[John Edwin Sandys|J.E. Sandys]], ''A History of Classical Scholarship'' (Cambridge, 1908) iii.  
*[[Michael Mattaire]], ''Historia Typographorum Aliquot Parisiensium'' (London, 1817)  
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