Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Early Life -- Cambridge, 1583–1587 -- Germany, 1587 -- Leiden, 1588–1591? -- England, 1591–May 1592 -- Germany, May 1592–April 1593 -- Geneva, April–August 1593 -- Frankfurt, September 1593 -- Leiden, December 1593–May 1594 -- Stade, May 1594 -- England, June 1594–August? 1596 -- Geneva, October? 1596–April 1597 -- Italy, April 1597–April 1599 -- Paris, July 1599 -- Augsburg, Autumn 1599? -- England, from December 1599 -- Reading Casaubon on Athenaeus -- Richard Mountague -- Visitors to Cambridge -- The Lexicon of Photius -- Johannes de Laet, 1603–1606 -- Petrus Scriverius’ Lost Edition of Martial, 1602–1605 -- Thomson’s Hebrew -- Bringing Casaubon to England, 1607–1610 -- Thomson’s Elenchus, 1611 -- Final Years and Death -- Thomson’s Legacy: The Diatriba, 1616 -- Thomson’s Posthumous Reputation -- Conclusion -- The Letters -- Editorial Principles and Conventions -- The Text and Apparatus -- Inventory of the Correspondence -- List of Correspondents -- The Letters -- Thomson’s Poetry -- Thomson’s Library -- Index.

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Richard ‘Dutch’ Thomson (d. 1613), best known today as a Bible translator and one of the earliest English Arminians, was admired in his own day for his learning. This book provides the first biography of Thomson. It maps his connections with his contemporaries, reconstructs his reading, and edits his surviving correspondence, some seventy-eight letters. Thomson moved among the greatest scholars of his day, and was good friends with Joseph Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon. He travelled in Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries, became a member of five universities, and worked with manuscripts in the libraries in England, Florence, Geneva, Heidelberg and Leiden. Modern scholarship, working within national boundaries, has tended to see only a part of the whole picture.

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