Hadrianus Junius

Hadrianus Junius (actually: Adriaen de Jonghe; * July 1, 1511 in Hoorn, The Netherlands, † June 16, 1575 in Middelburg ) was a Dutch humanist, physician, historian, philologist and poet.

Life

After high school in Haarlem and scientific studies in different countries in 1540 he received his doctorate in Bologna as a doctor of medicine and philosophy. After living in Paris and England, he was 1562/3 tutor to the Crown Prince of Denmark, later King Christian IV in 1563, he returned to Haarlem, where he was city physician and rector of the grammar school. After he was appointed in 1564 by the Staten of Holland to their historian, he places his duties as rector in 1569 down to himself entirely to his works, notably the Batavia devote can. During the siege of Haarlem, he was called to Delft, to become the sick prince William I as a physician to the side. After the capture of Haarlem by the Spanish and the looting of his extensive library, he went in 1573 to Middelburg, where he was city physician in 1574 and a year later died.

He was married twice, first with Maria Wilhelmina Keizer and after her death with Hadriana Hasselaer. From his first marriage he had two children, Peter and Clara, from his second marriage still followed eight children.

Works

Throughout his life he was regarded as a great scholar, Justus Lipsius even called him the most learned Dutch by Erasmus. He has published in many different areas: Latin poetry, commentaries on ancient authors, studies of medicine and linguistics, historical works. His most famous work is Batavia ( 1588), he has written 1566-1570 and a larger historical work of the Netherlands was intended as the first part, but that he could not accomplish.

• Batavia. In qua praeter Gentis et insulae Antiquitatem Originem, Decora, Mores, aliaque ad eam Historiam pertinentia, declaratur, quae fuerit vetus Batavia, quae Plinio, Tacitus, Ptolomaeo cognita, quae etiam genuina inclytae Francorum Nationis fuerit sedes. Lugd. Bat. 1588th
• Nomenclator omnium rerum propria nomina variis linguis explicata indican. Antwerp 1567.