Johann Matthias Gesner
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Johann Matthias Gesner was a German classical scholar and schoolmaster.
Frontispiece of Gesner's Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus, 1747.
Quintilian
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually r
Johann Matthias Gesner
…Thesaurus epistolicus Gesnerianus (ed. Klotz, 1768—1770) editions of the Scriptores rei rusticae, of Quintilian, Claudian, Pliny the Younger, Horace and the Orphic poems (published after his death) JA Ernesti, Opuscula oratoria (1762), p. 305…
Engraved portrait by Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers, 18th century
Frontispiece of a 1720 Dutch edition of the Institutio Oratoria, showing Quintilian teaching rhetoric