Julius Caesar Scaliger
1484-1558
Italian physician and humanist who established his intellectual reputation with an attack on Erasmus's criticism of Cicero.
After a minor military career, Scaliger studied at the University of Padua. He traveled to France and adopted the name Jules Cesar de l'Escale de Bordonis. He translated a number of ancient texts into Latin, including Aristotle's Natural History. He published works on grammar, poetry, literary criticism, zoology, and botany, and proposed a new system of botanical classification based on distinctive characteristics.
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