Jan Gruter
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Jan Gruter
(1560–1627), Anglo-Flemish epigraphist and classical scholar in England and Germany, born in Antwerp, the son of a Flemish father and an English mother. Gruter was educated in Cambridge and Leiden, and subsequently taught at Heidelberg. He published an important collection of ancient inscriptions (Inscriptiones antiquae totius orbis Romani, in corpus absolutissimum redactae, Heidelburg, 1602 and 1616) and many commentaries and editions of ancient authors, including Cicero, Livy, Martial, Plautus, Pliny the Younger, Sallust, Suetonius, and Tacitus.
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Jan Gruter
Jan Gruter (or Gruytere) (Latinized Janus Gruterus) (3 December 1560 – 20 September 1627) was a Dutch critic and scholar.
Life
Jan Gruter was Dutch on his father's side and English on his mother's, and was born at Antwerp. To avoid religious persecution his parents came to England while he was a child, and for some years he studied at Caius College, Cambridge,[1] after which he went to Leiden, where he graduated with an M.A.
In 1586, Gruter was appointed professor of history at the University of Wittenberg, but, as he refused to subscribe the formula concordiae, he lost his position. From 1589 to 1592, he taught at Rostock, after which he went to Heidelberg, where in 1602 he was appointed librarian to the university.
Works
Gruter's chief works were his Inscriptiones antiquae totius orbis Romani (2 vols., Heidelberg, 1603), and Lampas, sive fax artium liberalium (7 vols., Frankfort, 1602–1634).
References
- ^ Gruter, Janus in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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