Godescalcus Stewechius (or Gottschalk Stewech; 1557 – ) was a Dutch humanist from Heusden. He studied at Louvain University. Beginning in 1578, he lived in Cologne, Toul and Langres to escape the war in the Netherlands. He became a professor at the University of Pont-à-Mousson and around 1587 visited Trier to see some manuscripts. He died there."Stewechius (Steewech), Godescalcus", in K. Selleslach and Z. Van Loon (eds.), The Plantin Press Online (Brill, 2024).
In 1585, he edited a collection of Roman military treatises by Flavius Vegetius Renatus (De re militari), Sextus Julius Frontinus, Aelianus and Pseudo-Modestus (De vocabulis rei militaris), as well as extracts from Polybius on the construction of a military encampment and his own commentary.
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