Bonaventura Vulcanius

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Bonaventura Vulcanius of Bruges (1538 - 1614) was a leading personality in Dutch humanism of the 16th and 17th century. He was the secretary to the Archbishop of Burgos (1459-1466) and the secretary to the brother of Archbishop of Burgos in Toledo until 1570. He was later the secretary to the leading Calvinist Marnix van Sint-Aldegond. He had access to silver on purple codex and in 1597 published the text, the first publication of a Gothic text altogether. He called the manuscript Codex Argenteus from the name of silver.

Vulcanius studied medicine at the University of Leuven (Louvain). In 1581 he arrived in Leyden when for 30 y he 'taught the future elite of the Dutch Republic' amng them: Daniel Heinsius and Hugo Grotius. He was a professor of Greek at Leyden University.

After living for some time in Geneva and Basle, he returned to his native Flanders and became rector of the Latin school at Antwerp.