SCRIVERIUS, PETRUS

(1576–1660)

Historian. Scriverius worked as a private scholar in Leiden. Among his correspondents were his torians such as Janus Dousa, Johannes Meursius, and Johannes Pontanus. He was mainly an antiquarian collector and a critical edi tor of texts, both classical and Dutch. Scriverius also promoted Dutch poetry. His most famous publication was Batavia illustrata (1611), a collection of authors on “Batavian,” that is, Dutch, history.

See also Historiography.