Guillaume Morel
French classical scholar (1505–1564)
Le Teilleul, Normandy[1]
Guillaume Morel (1505 – 19 February 1564) was a French classical scholar born at Le Teilleul in Normandy.
After acting as proof-reader in a Paris firm, he set up for himself, and subsequently succeeded Turnebus as king's printer in 1555. His most important work was Thesaurus vocum omnium latinarum, containing a number of quotations from Latin authors, taken from hitherto unpublished manuscripts in the Paris library.[1] He died in Paris.
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- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Morel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 828.
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