Jan Olieschlager, or Olivarius (Gent about 1545 - Kamerijk before 1624) was a South Dutch humanist scholar. Lifecycle
Olieschlager left Ghent at a young age to study in Paris. He followed classes at Adries Turnèbe and Pierre La Ramée. Only seventeen years ago he began teaching himself in Greek and gave analyzes of writers such as Pindarus and Callimachus.
After having spent a while in Ghent, he joined Gentenaar Johannes Otho in Duisburg. He got undergraduate from the school and taught in Latin and Greek.
In 1575 he went to the invitation of his relative, Livinus Pontanus, to attend the University of Dowai Greek and Welsh. He left the Protestant Duisburg for the Catholic Dowai.
While he was teaching, he began to study again and became a licentiate in law. This brought about a change in his career and he became a guest of Dowaai.
In the meantime, he continued to publish scholarly works, which he gained a considerable reputation among his contemporaries. Sweertius said about him: For utriusque lingua peritus, poeta elegans, orator gravis, philosophus non vulgaris, in historiis omnibus versatissimus.
Olieschlager alias Olivarius is not to be confused with two other 16th century name bearers: Neolatine poet Oliverius or Jean d'Olivier, Bishop of Angers and Philologist Pierre-Jean Olivarius. Publications Literature
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