Johannes Goropius Becanus [SEP] date of death
Johannes Goropius Becanus
Johannes Goropius Becanus (23 June 1519 – 28 June 1572), born Jan Gerartsen, was a Dutch physician, linguist, and humanist.
Life.
He was born Jan Gerartsen van Gorp in the town of Gorp, in the municipality of Hilvarenbeek. As was the fashion of the time, Gerartsen adopted a Latinized surname based on the name of his birthplace, "Goropius" being rendered from "Van Gorp"' and "Becanus" referring to "Hilvarenbeek."
He studied medicine
Gibraltar: Near the Pillars of Hercules Andalusia.
Andalusia is a region in modern-day southern Spain which once included the "lost" city of Tartessos, which disappeared in the 6th century BC. The Tartessians were traders known to the Ancient Greeks who knew of their legendary king Arganthonios. The Andalusian hypothesis was originally developed by the Spanish author Juan de Mariana and the Dutch author Johannes van Gorp (Johannes Goropius Becanus), both of the 16th century, later by José Pellicer de Ossau Salas y Tovar in 1673, who