Daniel Heinsius

Daniël Heinsius (or Heyns ) ( born June 9, 1580 Gent, † February 25, 1655 in The Hague) was a noted scholar of the Dutch Renaissance.

Life

1583 fled Heinsius ' Protestant parents with their children from the Spanish Netherlands. They settled first in Veere in Zeeland down, then moved briefly to England, later to Rijswijk, before finally settling in Vlissingen. At age 16, his father sent him to listen law on the University of Franeker. He stayed there for half a year and then moved to the University of Leiden, where he spent the remaining sixty years of his life as Librarian of Leiden University Library. Here he studied with Joseph Justus Scaliger, was contact with Philips van Marnix, lord of Mont Saint Aldegonde, Janus Douza (1545-1604), Paul Merula and others.

His knowledge of the classical languages ​​were praised by respected scholars from all over Europe. Offers for abroad he struck off, he would not accept any position outside the Netherlands, and no matter how honorable. 1602 he was appointed Professor of Latin, 1605 Professor of Greek, and in 1607, after Merula death, he followed this as a librarian at the University.

Heinsius ' Dutch poems belong to the school of Roemer Visscher (1547-1620), do not reach high level, but have been admired by Martin Opitz, who with the translation of his poems introduced as a student of Heinsius the rhyming alexandrine in Germany.

In 1616 he published his collected poems in a Dutch band. He issued Terence 1618 Livy 1620 and published his didactic poem De contemptu mortis in 1621, and the Epistles of Joseph Justus Scaliger 1627th

Daniel Heinsius is the father of Neo-Latin poet and philologist Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder (1620-1681) and the grandfather of the writer Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger ( 1656-1718 ).

Works

  • Iambi ( 1602)
  • Elegiae (1603 )
  • Emblemata amatoria, poems in Dutch and Latin, were first printed in 1604
  • Poemata ( 1605 );
  • Hesiod (1603 )
  • Theocritus (1604 ), Bion and Moschus (1604 )
  • Latin speeches (1609 )
  • Horace (1610 )
  • Aristotle, Seneca ( 1611)
  • The Massacre of the Innocents ( Tragedy ) ( 1613 )
  • De politica sapientia ( 1614)
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