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 | The Elzevir family were booksellers and publishers in the Netherlands. |
| Its founder Lodewijk Elzevir (1542–1617) lived in Leiden and established the business in 1580. |
| As publishers of new work by Descartes, Galileo, and Grotius, they were part of the reason for Bertrand Russell's comment that it "is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Holland in the seventeenth century, as the one country where there was freedom of speculation." |
| The early Elzevirs (988 words) |
| The most successful were the partnership of Bonaventura and Abraham ELZEVIR (uncle and nephew) in Leiden, which took over the printing presses of Abraham's brother Isaac; and the Amsterdam concern of Bonaventura's son Daniel. |
| The first of the ELZEVIRs, Lodewijk or Louis ELZEVIR, was the son of a printer in Louvain who arrived in Leiden by way of Antwerp, Liege, and Douai in about 1580, when he was about 33 years old. |
| The ELZEVIR concern flourished during the thirty-year partnership of Abraham and Bonaventura and from 1926 onwards was strengthened further when another son of Mathijs, Isaac, turned over to them his printing works. |
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