Theodorus Schrevelius
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Theodorus Schrevelius (25 July 1572 – 2 December 1649) was a Dutch Golden Age writer and poet.
Biography
He was born in
Cornelius Schrevelius, who later succeeded him as director of the Leiden school.[1]
In 1609, he succeeded Cornelis Schonaeus as director of the Haarlem Latin School, but in 1620 he was dismissed for his
St. Bavochurch in the Brewer's chapel.[citation needed
]
Works
- Translation of Ovid's Tristia Tristium (1612)
- Diatribae scholasticae (1626)
- Staten edition of the three books of Homer's Iliad in 1636
- Harlemias, 1648, in Google books
History of Haarlem
He is best known today for his Harlemias, or history of Haarlem, which was first published 20 years after his colleague
Willem Heda, Roeland van Laer
,
Trivia
In his Harlemias, Schrevelius claimed that the art of printing, itself the keeper of all science, was invented in Haarlem in 1440 by Laurens Janszoon Coster.[4] The street Schreveliusstraat in Haarlem is named after him.
References
- ^ Schrevelius biography at the website of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- ^ Johan Torrentius in Harlemias page 385-386
- Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ Harlemias, p 356-359
External links
- Dutch Humanists, art. 'Schrevelius, Theodorus (1572-1649)'
- Portret van Theodorus Schrevelius, 1617 - Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum
- Engraving of Schrevelius aged 46 by Jacob Matham in the Rijksmuseum
- Harlemias edition II from 1754 op Google Books
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