Robert Constantin


Robert Constantin was a 16th-century French physician, hellenist, bibliographer, lexicographer and humanist.

Biography

Robert Constantin studied and practiced the art of medicine and was a pupil of Julius Caesar Scaliger, with whose children he worked in publishing his Poetics. He taught at the University of Caen, where he achieved a reputation as a Hellenist and physician and was alderman of Montauban from 1571, where he died in 1605.
Among other works, especially philological, but also of bibliographic character. In lexicography, the Lexicon Graeco-Latinum was, along the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae by Robert Estienne, one of the most popular dictionaries for many centuries, whose composition was helped by Jean Crespin. The monumental second edition, 1592, was extended by Franciscus Portus with important appendices.

Works