Antoon van Tsestich
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De orthographia linguae Belgicae (Lovanii, 1576).
Antoon van Tsestich, Latinized Antonius Sexagius[1] (died 1585) was a lawyer and author in the 16th-century Low Countries.
Life[]
Tsestich was an advocate in the Great Council of Mechelen, the highest law court in the Habsburg Netherlands. He died in Mechelen on 10 September 1585.[2]
Works[]
Tsestich wrote a work on Dutch orthography, Orthographia Linguae Belgicae, sive de recta dictionum Teutonicarum scriptura, secundum Belgarum, praesertim Brabantorum, pronuntiandi usitatam rationem (Leuven, Joannes Masius, 1576),[3] and edited Filips Wielant's work on civil litigation, Pracktijke Civile des edelen heere M. Phylips Wielant (Antwerp, Hendrick vander Loe, 1573).[4] The latter was reprinted in Rotterdam in 1613.[5][2]
References[]
- ^ Antonius Sexagius[1].
- ^ a b F. Jos. van den Branden; J.G. Frederiks, eds. (1891). Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde (2nd ed.). Amsterdam.
- ^ Available on Google Books
- ^ Available on Google Books
- ^ Available on Google Books
Categories:
- 1585 deaths
- Lawyers of the Habsburg Netherlands