Valerius, Cornelius, 1512-1578

Valerius attended the Hieronymusschule, the Latin school in Utrecht, under the rector Georgius Macropedius. After attending university in Louvain, Valerius returned to the the school as a professor of Latin and rhetoric. He then taught Latin in Louvain at the Collegium Trilingue, where he was a Roman Catholic priest. He was particularly interested in a more elegant presentation of logic in the spirit of humanism and wrote schoolbooks on rhetoric, physics, ethics, astronomy, and the natural sciences. He was an excellent lecturer and popular teacher. Not to be confused with the Dutch humanist Cornelius Wouters (approximately 1500–1577).

HMML ID
631961394585
PURL
https://w3id.org/haf/person/631961394585
LC name
Valerius, Cornelius, 1512-1578
HMML name
Valerius, Cornelius, 1512-1578
Library of Congress
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90700788
VIAF
https://viaf.org/viaf/27179394

Variants

  • Auwater, Cornelius Valerius van
  • Cornelius Valerius
  • Cornelius Valerius Ultraiectinus
  • Cornelius, Gualterius Gandavensis
  • Gandavensis, Walter
  • Gualterus, C.
  • Gualterus, Cornelius
  • Gualtheri, Cornelius
  • Gualtherus, Cornelius
  • Oudewater, Wouters van

Name elements

Given names
Cornelius

Personal information

Birth date
1512
Death date
1578-08-11
Centuries
16th century CE
Gender
Males
Place born
Place died
Place residence
Associated countries
Occupations
Fields of activity
Administration ● Ethics ● History ● Language and languages ● Logic ● Poetry ● Rhetoric ● Science ● Teaching
Honorary titles
g ● Professor
Languages
Dutch ● Latin

Affiliations

Affiliation

General notes

Citations
Hendrik de Vocht, Cornelii Valerii ab Auwater epistolae et carmina (Louvain: Librairie Universitaire, Uystpruyst, 1957).
Citations
Daniel Jacoby, ""Valerius, Cornelius,"" Deutsche Biographie, accessed October 20, 2023, https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd100568661.html#adbcontent.
Description
Cornelii Valerii
Citations
43416 (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg im Breisgau, Hs. 1295), Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.

Preferred citation

"Valerius, Cornelius, 1512-1578." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified October 20, 2023. https://w3id.org/haf/person/631961394585

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Date added
2023-10-20
Last edited
2023-10-20

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