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GRONOVIUS, Johannes Friedricus

  • Johannes Friedricus Gronovius
  • Date of Birth: May 11, 1611
  • Born City: Hamburg
  • Born State/Country: Germany
  • Date of Death: December 20, 1671
  • Death City: Leiden
  • Death State/Country: The Netherlands
  • Education:

    Study law and classics, Altdorf, 1631-3;  Doctor of Laws, Angers, 1640.at Leiden and Groningen
  • Professional Experience:

    Private teacher, Leiden, The Hague, Groningen & Amsterdam, 1634-9; travel in Europe, 1639-41; Professor, Athaeneum illustre, Deventer1641-58; prof. Greek & history, Leiden, 1658-71; librarian, 1665-71.
  • Publications:

    Livius , 4 vols. (1643); 3 vols, (1995); Seneca Rhetor (1649); Seneca philosophus (1649. 1672); Aulus Gellius (1651); Statius (1653); Martialis (1661); Plautus (1664); Sallustius (1665); Plinius Minor (1669); Phaedrus (1669); Tacitus 2 vols. (1672).
  • Notes:

    A meeting with Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) in Hamburg in 1633 drew Gronovius from the law to philology. 
  • Sources:

    Vita, Lectiones Plautinae (1740); F.A. Eckstein EG 1 92, 193-200; N. Wilkins (1823); Beneke, ADB 9 (1879) 721-3;