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SCHOPPE, CASPAR (1576-1649)

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SCHOPPE, CASPAR (1576-1649) , See also:German controversialist and See also:scholar, was See also:born at Neumarkt in the upper See also:Palatinate on the 27th of May 1576 and studied at several German See also:universities. Having become a convert to See also:Roman Catholicism about 1599, he obtained the favour of See also:Pope See also:Clement VIII., and, even ' Kritik (Trans. Anal.), bk. ii. Appendix. 2 Uber See also:die Seelenfrage, p. 9 (See also:Leipzig, 1861). 3 Mikrokosmus, 1. 408 (2nd ed.). in an See also:age of violent polemics, distinguished himself by the virulence of his writings against the Protestants. He became involved in a controversy with See also:Joseph Justus See also:Scaliger, formerly his intimate friend, and others, wrote See also:Ecclesiasticus auctoritali See also:Jacobi regis oppositus (1611), an attack upon See also:James I. of See also:England; and in Classicum See also:belli See also:scarf (1619) urged the See also:Catholic princes to wage See also:war upon the Protestants. About 1607 Schoppe entered the service of See also:Ferdinand, See also:archduke of See also:Styria, afterwards the See also:emperor Ferdinand II., who found him very useful in rebutting the arguments of the Protestants, and who sent him on several See also:diplomatic errands. According to See also:Pierre See also:Bayle, he was almost killed by some Englishmen at See also:Madrid in 1614, and again fearing for his See also:life he See also:left See also:Germany for See also:Italy in 1617, afterwards taking See also:part in an attack upon the See also:Jesuits.

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long See also:list of his writings shows, knew also something of See also:grammar and See also:philosophy, and had an excellent acquaintance with Latin. His See also:chief See also:work is, perhaps, his Grammatica philosophica (See also:Milan, 1628). Schoppe died at See also:Padua on the 19th of See also:November 1649. In his Life of See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Wotton Izaac See also:Walton, calling him See also:Jasper Scioppius, refers to Schoppe as " a See also:man of a restless spirit and a malicious See also:pen." Besides the See also:works already noticed, he wrote De See also:ark critica (1597) De Antichristo (1605); See also:Pro auctoritate ecclesiae in decidendis fidei controversiis libellus; Scaliger hypololymaeus (1607), a virulent attack on Scaliger; and latterly the See also:anti-jesuitical works, Flagellum Jesuiticum (1632); Mysteria patrum jesuitorum (1633); and Arcana societatis Jesu (1635). For a See also:fuller list of his writings see J. P. Niceron Memoires, (1727–1745).. See also C. See also:Nisard, See also:Les Gladiateurs de la republique See also:des lettres (See also:Paris, 186o).

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