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Justus Lipsius  

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  • Justus Lipsius (1547–1606), a Flemish humanist, philosopher, and classical scholar, was the founder of neostoicism, a key school of European thought in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Born near Brussels, Belgium, Lipsius was educated at the Jesuit College in Cologne, Germany, and the Catholic University of Leuven [Louvain] in Belgium, where he studied law and Latin classics. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Lipsius, Justus]

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