DOES, JOHAN VAN DER (JANUS DOUSA)

(1545–1604)

Politi cian; ambassador to England; librarian of the Universityof Leiden’s library in 1585; and editor of several historical books such as the medieval chronicle of Melis Stoke (13th century). Van der Does wrote a history of Hollandin Latin, Bataviae Hollandiaeque Annales (1601), to which his son Janus Dousa Jr. (1571–1596), a neo-Latin poet, contributed.