Jacob Bernays

One substantial biography of Joseph Scaliger is that of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Bernays" title="Jakob Bernays">Jakob Bernays</a> (Berlin, 1855). It was reviewed by Pattison in the Quarterly Review, vol. cviii (1860), since reprinted in the Essays, i (1889), 132–195. Pattison had made many manuscript collections for a life of Joseph Scaliger on a much more extensive scale, which he left unfinished. In writing the above article, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Copley_Christie" title="Richard Copley Christie">Professor Christie</a> had access to and made much use of these manuscripts, which include a life of Julius Caesar Scaliger. The fragments of the life of Joseph Scaliger have been printed in the Essays, i. 196–245. For the life of Joseph, besides the letters published by Tamizis de Larroque (Agen, 1881), the two old collections of Latin and French letters and the two Scaligerana are the most important sources of information. The complete correspondence of Scaliger is now available in eight volumes: The Correspondance of Joseph Justus Scaliger, 8 vol. ; ed. by Paul Botley and Dirk van Miert. Supervisory editors <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Grafton" title="Anthony Grafton">Anthony Grafton</a>, Henk Jan De Jonge and Jill Kraye. Genève : Droz, 2012. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance ; 507). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9782600016384" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 978-2600-01638-4</a>.

For the life of Julius Caesar, the letters edited by his son, those subsequently published in 1620 by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=President_de_Maussac&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="President de Maussac (page does not exist)">President de Maussac</a>, the Scaligerana, and his own writings are full of autobiographical matter, are the chief authorities. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jules_de_Bourousse_de_Laffore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jules de Bourousse de Laffore (page does not exist)">Jules de Bourousse de Laffore</a>'s Etude sur Jules César de Lescale (Agen, 1860) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adolphe_Magen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adolphe Magen (page does not exist)">Adolphe Magen</a>'s Documents sur Julius Caesar Scaliger et sa famille (Agen, 1873) add important details for the lives of both father and son. The lives by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nisard" title="Charles Nisard">Charles Nisard</a>—that of Julius et Les Gladiateurs de la république des lettres, and that of Joseph Le Triumvirat littéraire au seizième siècle—are equally unworthy of their author and their subjects. Julius is simply held up to ridicule, while the life of Joseph is almost wholly based on the book of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scioppius" class="mw-redirect" title="Scioppius">Scioppius</a> and the Scaligerana.

A complete list of the works of Joseph will be found in his life by Jakob Bernays. See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwin_Sandys" class="mw-redirect" title="John Edwin Sandys">J. E. Sandys</a>, History of Classical Scholarship, ii. (1908), 199–204. A technical biography is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_T._Grafton" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony T. Grafton">Anthony T. Grafton</a>, Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship, 2 vol. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1983, 1993).