Brabant priest and humanist. Antwerp, 12 September 1552 - 23 January 1629. He studied Latin and Greek philology at the University of Louvain and taught rhetoric in a college. In 1576 the troubled situation in the Netherlands did him emigrate. In the company of Petrus Pantinus, he first went to Douai, continued to Paris, before finally, at the end of 1579, departing for Spain, where he settled down for a longer period. He became professor in Greek at the University of Toledo, but left in 1583 his professorate to P. Pantinus, went to Salamanca, then started teaching at the University of Saragossa. The new University of Saragossa, lacking books and manuscripts, did not satisfy Schottus and he continued his Spanish peregrination to Tarragona, where, for some two years, he became the host of Archbishop Antonius Augustinus, until the death of the latter in 1586. In the meantime he had studied theology, was ordained priest on 30 September 1584, and entered the Jesuit Order on Easter 1586. Novice at Saragossa, he resided from 1587 until 1592 in Valencia to continue his theological formation. In 1594 he left Spain for Italy, until in 1597 he finally returned to his native country, where for the remaining years of his life he lived and taught at the Jesuit College in Antwerp. Cf. Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], 22, 1914-20, Columns 865-904; De Backer-Sommervogel, 7, Columns 865-904. Other bibliographical references in A. Gerlo - H.D.L. Vervliet, Bibliographie de l'humanisme des anciens Pays-Bas, pages 449-450.
Edited also: Aurelius Victor, 1579 (nos. cp011025 and cp011373); Pomponius Mela, 1582 (nos. cp011324 and cp013239).