Daniel Heinsius (or Heins) ( June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. Events 68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging. 1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first... June 9, Events Michel de Montaigne publishes first Essay. September 26 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe 1580-1764 First session if Jewish Waad (Sejm of 4 countries) in Poland. 70 delegates of Jewish local kahals met to discuss issue of taxations and other important for Jewish communities issues. Portugal loses independence... 1580 - February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 309 days remaining, 310 in leap years. Events 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. 1570 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England. 1793 - George Washington holds the... February 25, Events New Sweden (Delaware) attacked and captured by Dutch forces. March 25 - Saturns largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens. April 7 - Fabio Chigi becomes Pope Alexander VII April - Admiral Robert Blake severely damages the arsenal of the Bey of Tunis. Emperor Go-Sai ascends to the throne... 1655), one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance, was born at This page is about the Belgian city. For other places called Ghent see Ghent (disambiguation). Ghent (Gent in Dutch, Gand in French, once Gaunt in English) is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of East Flanders, of which it... Ghent.

The troubles of the Spanish war drove his parents to settle first at Veere in For the U.S. towns of the same name see Zeeland, Michigan and Zeeland, North Dakota respectively. Location of Zeeland in the Netherlands Zeeland is a province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands (hence its name Sealand... Zeeland, then in Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Official language None; English is de facto Capital London Capitals coordinates 51° 30 N, 0° 10 W Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK... England, next at Ryswick and lastly at Flushing. In Events February 27 - France at Rheims. March 21 - Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time. Births February 19 - Henry, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Anne of Denmark. May 29 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim... 1594, being already remarkable for his attainments, he was sent to the University of Franeker to perfect himself in The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. Ancient Greek in its various forms was the language both of classical Greek civilisation and of the origins of Christianity, and... Greek under Henricus Schotanus. He stayed at Franeker half a year, and then settled at Leiden University in the city of Leiden, is the oldest still existing and most famous university in the Netherlands. It is a member of the Coimbra Group, the Europaeum and the League of European Research Universities.The university was founded in 1575 by Prince William of Orange, leader of the... Leiden for the remaining sixty years of his life. There he studied under Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) was the tenth child and third son of Julius Caesar Scaliger and Andiette de Roques Lobejac. Born at Agen in 1540, he was sent when twelve years of age, with two younger brothers, to the college of Guienne at Bordeaux, then under the direction of... Joseph Scaliger, and there he found Portret by Jacques de Gheyn II Philips van Marnix, heer van St Aldegonde (1538 - December 15, 1598), was a Dutch writer and statesman, and the probable author of the text of the Dutch national anthem, the Wilhelmus. He was born at Brussels, the son of Jacob van Marnix, baron of... Marnix de St Aldegonde, Janus Douza, Paulus Merula and others, and was soon taken into the society of these celebrated men as their equal.

His proficiency in the classic languages won the praise of all the best scholars of Europe, and offers were made to him, but in vain, to accept honourable positions outside Holland. He soon rose in dignity at the University of Leiden. In 1602 he was made professor of Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. It is said... Latin, in 1605 professor of Greek, and at the death of Merula in 1607 he succeeded that illustrious scholar as University Library Leiden in 1610 from Woudanus in Stedeboeck der Nederlanden, Amsterdam: Willem Blaeu, 1649. Leiden University Library is more than 400 years old. Its significance for European culture can hardly be overestimated: it is a part of a small number of cultural centres that gave direction to the development... librarian to the university. The remainder of his life is recorded in a list of his productions. He died at the Hague on the 25th of February 1655.

The Dutch poetry of Heinsius is of the school of Drawing of the coat of arms of Roemer Visscher Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (* 1547 - † February 19, 1620) was a successful Dutch salesman and writer in the period often called the Dutch Golden Age. Life Visscher lived in Amsterdam and was an important and central figure of the cultural scene there... Roemer Visscher, but attains no very high excellence. It was, however, greatly admired by Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (December 23, 1597 - August 20, 1639), German poet, was born at Bunzlau/Boleslawiec in Silesia, the son of a prosperous citizen. He received his early education at the Gymnasium of his native town, of which his uncle was rector, and in 1617 attended the high school... Martin Opitz, who was the pupil of Heinsius, and who, in translating the poetry of the latter, introduced the German public to the use of the rhyming Alternate meaning: Alexandrine of Denmark An alexandrine is a metrical verse of iambic hexameter - a line of six feet or measures (iambs), each of which has two syllables with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, or a short syllable followed by a long syllable, as in the word... alexandrine.

He published his original Latin poems in three volumes--Iambi (1602), Elegiae (1603) and Poemata (1605); his Emblemata amatoria, poems in Dutch and Latin, were first printed in 1604. In the same year he edited Theocritus, the creator of bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC. Little is known of him beyond what can be inferred from his writings. We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems (Idylls) commonly attributed to him have little claim to authenticity. It is... Theocritus, Ripleys Believe It or Not! is a comic strip featuring unusual, hard-to-believe facts from around the world. The cartoon was conceived and drawn by Robert Ripley. It later became a radio program, a television show, a chain of museums, and the subject of a pinball game. Contents... Bion and Moschus, Greek bucolic poet and friend of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus, was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC. He was the author of a short epic poem, Europa, and a pretty little epigram, Love, the Runaway, imitated by Torquato Tasso and Ben Jonson. The epitaph on Bion of... Moschus, having edited Hesiod (Hesiodos) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, believed to have lived around the year 700 BC. From the 5th century BC literary historians have debated the priority of Hesiod or of Homer. Most modern scholars agree that Homer lived before Hesiod. Hesiod lived in Boeotia and regularly visited... Hesiod in 1603. In 1609 he printed his Latin Orations. In Events January 7 - Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter. March 12 – Swedish troops under Jacob de la Gardie take Moscow May 13-14 – Francois Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France July 5 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland. Johannes Fabricius... 1610 he edited For other people named Horace, see Horace (disambiguation). Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC) known in the English world as Horace was the leading lyric poet in Latin. Horace was the son of a freedman, but himself born free. His father spent considerable money on... Horace, and in 1611 This article needs cleanup. Please edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. Aristotle (sculpture) Aristotle (Greek Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs) (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. Along with Plato... Aristotle and Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (c. 3 BC - AD 65) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. Seneca the Younger Biography Seneca was born in Cordoba, Spain, the second son of Helvia... Seneca. In 1613 appeared in Dutch his tragedy of The Massacre of the Innocents; and in 1614 his treatise De politica sapientia. In 1616 he collected his original Dutch poems into a volume. He edited Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time c. 170 - 160 BC, and he died young in 159 BC. He wrote 6 plays, all of which survive. (In comparison, his predecessor Plautus wrote 21 extant... Terence in 1618, Titus Livius (around 59 BC - 17 AD), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC). Livy was a native of Padua on the Po River in northern Italy. Life and Works The books title, Ab... Livy in 1620, published his oration De contemptu mortis in 1621, and brought out the Epistles of Joseph Scaliger in 1627.

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