Antoon van Tsestich


Antoon van Tsestich, Latinized Antonius Sexagius was a lawyer and author in the 16th-century Low Countries.

Life

Tsestich was an advocate in the Great Council of Mechelen, the highest law court in the Habsburg Netherlands. He died in Mechelen on 10 September 1585.

Works

Tsestich wrote a work on Dutch orthography, Orthographia Linguae Belgicae, sive de recta dictionum Teutonicarum scriptura, secundum Belgarum, praesertim Brabantorum, pronuntiandi usitatam rationem, and edited Filips Wielant's work on civil litigation, Pracktijke Civile des edelen heere M. Phylips Wielant. The latter was reprinted in Rotterdam in 1613.