Scioppius

Scioppius, CASPAR (1576-1649), German polemic, was a furious opponent of Protestantism and an adversary of Scaliger at one period. He was originally a Protestant himself, but became a Catholic, and wrote a panegyric of Clement VII. in 1598, for which he was rewarded. He visited Italy, Austria, and Spain, and rendered himself obnoxious everywhere by his ferocious onslaughts on Protestants, on James I., and afterwards on the Jesuits. His works were burnt by the common hangman in London and Paris. They show great learning, and some of the philological treatises are rather valuable, but his extremely partisan spirit destroys much of their merit. He died in Padua after a somewhat stormy career. His writings number over a hundred.