Petrus Scriverius
Petrus Scriverius, the Latinised form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver (12 January 1576 – 30 April 1660), was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of the Low Countries.
Life and work
He was born at
Scriverius belonged to the political Party of the
In 1655/56 Scriverius' son Willem commissioned the artist Rembrandt to paint the Jacob blessing the sons of Joseph. It depicts his family, his father as Jacob, himself with his wife Wendela de Graeff and their two sons, symbolic of Wendela's children from his first and second marriage, as biblical figures.
Most of his life was passed in Leiden, but in 1650 he became blind, and the last years of his life were spent in his son's house at Oudewater, where he died in 1660.[1]
He is best known as a scholar by his notes on
He made many valuable contributions to the history of Holland: Batavia Illustrata (4 parts, Leiden, 1609); Corte historische Beschryvinghe der Nederlandscher Oorlogen (1612); Inferioris Germaniae . . . historia (1611, 4 parts); Beschryvinghe van Out Batavien (Arnheim, 1612); Het oude Goutsche chronycxken van Hollandt, as editor, and printed at Amsterdam in 1663; and Principes Hollandiae Zelandiae et Frisiae (Haarlem, 1650), translated (1678) into Dutch by Pieter Brugman.[1]
See also Peerlkamp, Vitae Belgarum qui latina carmina scripserunt (Brussels, 1822), and J. H. Hoeufft, Parnassus latino-belgicus (Amsterdam, 1819).[1]
Marriage pendant portraits by Frans Hals
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Portrait of Petrus Scriverius
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Portrait of Anna van der Aar
References
- ^ a b c d e f public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schrijver, Peter". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 378. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- historici.nl
External links
- Media related to Petrus Scriverius at Wikimedia Commons