Caspar Schoppe (May 27, 1576 - November 19, 1649) was a German controversialist and scholar. May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... Events May 5 - Peace of Beaulieu or Peace of Monsieur (after Monsieur, the Duc dAnjou, brother of the King, who negotiated it). ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... // Events January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. ...

He was born at Neumarkt in the upper Palatinate and studied at several German universities. Having converted to Roman Catholicism in about 1599, he obtained the favour of Pope Clement VIII, and distinguished himself by the virulence of his writings against the Protestants. He became involved in a controversy with Joseph Justus Scaliger, formerly his intimate friend, and others, wrote Ecclesiasticus auctoritati Jacobi regis oppositus (1611), an attack upon James I of England; and in Classicum belli scan (1619) urged the Catholic princes to wage war upon the Protestants. In about 1607, Schoppe entered the service of Ferdinand, archduke of Styria, afterwards Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, who found him very useful in rebutting the arguments of the Protestants, and who sent him on several diplomatic errands. According to Pierre Bayle, he was almost killed by some Englishmen at Madrid in 1614, and again fearing for his life he left Germany for Italy in 1617, afterwards taking part in an attack upon the Jesuits. Neumarkt is the name of several towns in Germany, Austria, Italy and Romania. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Events Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is replaced by his brother Charles IX of Sweden. ... Clement, in the monument in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, erected by his Borghese heirs Clement VIII, born Ippolito Aldobrandini (March 1536 - March 5, 1605) was pope from 1592 to 1605. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) was the tenth child and third son of Julius Caesar Scaliger and Andiette de Roques Lobejac. ... James VI of Scotland and I of England (Charles James) (19 June 1566–27 March 1625) was a King who ruled over England, Scotland and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously. ... Events January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. ... Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (July 9, 1578 – February 15, 1637), of the house of Habsburg, ruled 1620-1637. ... Pierre Bayle (November 18, 1647 – December 28, 1706) was a French philosopher and writer. ... Plaza de Cibeles (Cibeles square) and the Palacio de Comunicaciones (Communications Palace) Coat of arms. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ...

Schoppe, as the long list of his writings shows, knew also something of grammar and philosophy, and had an excellent acquaintance with Latin. His chief work is, perhaps, his Grammatica philosophica (Milan, 5628). Schoppe died at Padua on the 19th of November 1649. In his Life of Sir Henry Wotton Izaak Walton, calling him Jasper Scioppius, refers to Schoppe as "a man of a restless spirit and a malicious pen." More recent material in Wotton And His Worlds by Gerald Curzon(2004): see http://www.henrywotton.org.uk Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a language. ... The term philosophy derives from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Location within Italy Tronco Maestro Riviera: a pedestrian walk along a section of the inland waterway or naviglio interno of Padua The city of Padua (Lat. ... Sir Henry Wotton (1568 - December, 1639) was an English author and diplomat. ... Izaak Walton (August 9, 1593 - December 15, 1683) was an English writer, author of The Compleat Angler. ...

Besides the works already noticed, he wrote:

• De arte critica (1597)
• De Antichristo (1605)
• Pro auctoritate ecclesiae in decidendis fidei controversiis libellus
• Scaliger hypololymaeus (1607), a virulent attack on Scaliger

Anti-jesuitical Works:

• Flagellum Jesuiticum (1632)
• Mysteria patrum jesuitorum (1633)
• Arcana societatis Jesu (1635).

For a fuller list of his writings see JP Nicéron Mémoires, (1727-1745). See also C Nisard, Les Gladiateurs de la république des lettres (Paris. 1860).

Reference

• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.