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HEINSIUS, Nicolaas

  • Date of Birth: July 29, 1620
  • Born City: Leiden
  • Born State/Country: Netherlands
  • Parents: Daniel, philologist and poet, & Armgard Winandser Rutgers H.
  • Date of Death: October 7, 1861
  • Death City: The Hague
  • Death State/Country: Netherlands
  • Married: Margaretha Wullen, August 15, 1655
  • Education:

    Taught by father and Claude Saumaise.
  • Professional Experience:

    City Clerk, Amsterdam, 1656-61; Ambassador of States-General to Sweden, 1661-71.
  • Publications:

    Breda expugnata (Leiden: n.p, 1637); Italica (Padua, 1648); Libellum saturnalium with Caspar Kinschot & Hadrian Wall (1649); Cl. Claudiani quae exstant (Leiden: Elzevir, 1650; 1665 & 1760 ed. Burman); Operum P. Ovidii Nasonis…editionova, 3 vols. (Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1652; repr. 1661-2, 1668, rev. Burman, 1727); Poemata includes Elegiarum liber et varia diversi argumenti poemata (1646) (Leiden: Elzevir, 1653; enlarged ed., 1666; repr. Vienna: Selbstverlag, 2005); Danielis Heinsii Orationum (Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1657); Commentarius in P. Ovidii Nasonis opera omnia (Leipzig: Weidmann, 1758); Aurelii Prudentii Clementis quae exstant (Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1667); P. Vergilii Maronis Opera(Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1676); C. Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt (Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1678); C. Valerii Flacci Argonautica (Amsterdam: Wetstenium,1680; annotations by P. Burman, 1724); 

    Library Catalogue: Bibliotheca Heinsiana sive catalogus librorum, 2 vols. (Leiden: Johannem de Vivie, 1682).
  • Sources:

    L. Müller, 51-4; Wilhelm Scherer, ADB 11 (1880) 656-60; Sandys, 2:323-6; A.H. Kan, Nieuw Nederlands Biographisch Woordenboek 2 (1912) 557-60; F.F. Blok, Nicolaus Heinsius in Dienst van Christina van Zweden (diss. Delft, 1949); Wilamowitz, 71-2; Correspondance de Jacques Dupuy et de Nicolas Heinsius 1646-1656 ed. Hans Bots (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1971); Jan Papy, Brill, 274-6.