Gotthard Arthusius
Gotthard Arthus or Gotardus Artusius Dantiscanus (1568–1628) was a schoolmaster, historian and translator in early seventeenth-century Frankfurt.
Life
Gotthard Arthus was born in Danzig on 11 January 1568.{{Cite web|url=https://www.presseforschung.uni-bremen.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=arthus_gotthard|title=Arthus, Gotthard|website=presseforschung.uni-bremen.de|date=4 July 2019|publisher=Institut Deutsche Presseforschung|language=de}} In 1589 he matriculated at the University of Jena, graduating Master of Arts in 1592.Ernst Kelchner, [https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd122266943.html#adbcontent Arthusius, Gothard], Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, vol. 1 (1875), p. 613. Four years later a Johann Arthus matriculated who may have been a relation. In 1595 he was appointed to the city school in Frankfurt on Main, becoming deputy head in 1618.
He died in Frankfurt on 15 February 1628.
Among his publications is a continuation of Michael ab Isselt's Mercurius Gallobelgicus, for the years 1603-1626, printed in Frankfurt and distinct from the Cologne continuation. He was also a translator from Dutch.
Works
- Historia Indiae orientalis (Frankfurt, 1600)
- Historia chronologica Pannoniae (Frankfurt, 1608)
- Cometa orientalis: kurtze Beschreibung desz newen Cometen (Frankfurt, 1619; [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2600275q available on Gallica.fr]) – a discussion of the Great Comet of 1618.
- Commentariorum de rebus in Regno Antichristi memorabilibus (3 vols., Frankfurt, 1620)
- Sleidanus redivivus (Frankfurt, 1618) – a continuation of Johannes Sleidanus, Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae
- Mercurius Gallobelgicus succenturiati (Frankfurt, 1603-1626)
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