10 Facts About Claudius Salmasius

Claude Saumaise, known by the Latin name Claudius Salmasius, was a French classical scholar.

Claudius Salmasius had an ally in Gerardus Vossius, on religious grounds.

Claudius Salmasius had enemies there: Nikolaes Heinsius, son of his foe Daniel, but Isaac Vossius with whom he had fallen out.

Claudius Salmasius withdrew from Sweden in 1651; Christina sent warm letters and pressed him to return.

In 1606 or 1607 Claudius Salmasius had discovered in the library of the Counts Palatine in Heidelberg the only surviving copy of Cephalas's 10th-century unexpurgated copy of the Greek Anthology, including the 258-poem anthology of homoerotic poems by Straton of Sardis that would eventually become known as the notorious Book 12 of the Greek Anthology.

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Claudius Salmasius made copies of the newly discovered poems in the Palatine version and began to circulate clandestine manuscript copies of them as the Anthologia Inedita.

Claudius Salmasius learned Arabic to qualify himself for the botanical part of his task.

Shortly after his removal to the Netherlands, Claudius Salmasius composed his treatise on the military system of the Romans, which remained unpublished until 1657.

Claudius Salmasius's advice had already been sought on English and Scottish affairs, and, inclining to Presbyterianism or to a modified episcopacy, he had written against the English religious Independents.

Claudius Salmasius is the author of Simplicii Verini, sive Claudii Salmasii, de Transsubstantiatione liber, ad justum pacium, contra H Grotium.