William Bathe

Life
1564-1614; b. Dublin; Jesuit, ed. at Oxford; converted to Catholicism and entered Jesuit novitiate at Tournai, c.1596; studied at Louvain and Padua; rector of Irish College at Salamanca; d. Madrid; works include Introduction to the Art of Music (1584) and Janua Linguarum (1611), a system for teaching languages. DNB

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Criticism
W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (IAP 1976; 1984) [infra].

Notes
Shorter DNB does not attest that Bathe was Irish.

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