HEINSIUS, DANIEL

(1580–1655)

Scholar. Heinsius studied law at the University of Franeker and was appointed professor at Leiden University, first of poetry in 1603 and later of Greek in 1605 and of history in 1613. He wrote many elegant orations and published sev eral critical editions of classical authors. He also had a reputation as a Dutch poet in the classicist style, for example, the Nederduytsche Poemata, and as a Latin historiographer. From 1607 until 1653, Heinsius was librarian at the Leiden University library.

See also HEINSIUS, Nicolaas (1620–1681).