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Scaliger, Julius Caesar, originally probably Benedetto Bordone 1484-1558
French scholar and physicist
Born in Italy, the son of a sign-painter, he claimed descent from the princely della Scala family of Verona. He also claimed that he was brought up a soldier under his kinsman the Emperor Maximilian I, gaining distinction in the French armies attempting the conquest of Italy. He changed his name to Scaliger, and graduated in medicine at Padua. He became a French citizen in 1528 and settled at Agen, where he produced learned works on Latin grammar and on Theophrastus, Aristotle and Hippocrates. His powers of invective, as in his attack on Erasmus, were considerable.
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