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GRAEVIUS (properly See also:GRAVE or GREFFE), JOHANN GEORG (1632-1703)  , See also:German classical See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born at See also:Naumburg, See also:Saxony, on the 29th of See also:January 1632 . He was originally intended for the See also:law, but having made the acquaintance of J . F . See also:Gronovius during a casual visit to See also:Deventer, under his See also:influence he abandoned See also:jurisprudence for See also:philology . He completed his studies under D . See also:Heinsius at See also:Leiden, and under the See also:Protestant theologians A . Morus and D . Blonde] At See also:Amsterdam . During his See also:residence in Amsterdam, under See also:Blondel's influence he abandoned Lutheranism and joined the Reformed See also:Church; and in 1656 he was called by the elector of See also:Brandenburg to the See also:chair of See also:rhetoric in the university of See also:Duisburg . Two years afterwards, on the recommendation of Gronovius, he was chosen to succeed that scholar at Deventer; in 1662 he was translated to the university of See also:Utrecht, where he occupied first the chair of rhetoric, and from 1667 until his See also:death (January 11th, 1703) that of See also:history and politics . See also:Graevius enjoyed a very high reputation as a teacher, and his lecture-See also:room was crowded by pupils, many of them of distinguished See also:rank, from all parts of the civilized See also:world . He was honoured with See also:special recognition by See also:Louis XIV., and was a particular favourite of See also:William III. of See also:England, who made him historiographer royal .

His two most important See also:

works are the See also:Thesaurus antiquilatum Romanarum (1694–1699, in 12 volumes), and the Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae published after his death, and continued by the See also:elder See also:Burmann (1704–1725) . His See also:editions of the See also:classics, although they marked a distinct advance in scholarship, are now for the most See also:part superseded . They include See also:Hesiod'(1667), See also:Lucian, Pseudosophista (1668), See also:Justin, Historiae Philippicae (1669), Suetonius (1672), See also:Catullus, See also:Tibullus et See also:Propertius (168o), and several of the works of See also:Cicero (his best See also:production) . He also edited many of the writings of contemporary scholars . The Oratio funebris by P . Burmann (1703) contains an exhaustive See also:list of the works of this scholar; see also P . H . Kulb in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie, and J . E . See also:Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, ii . (1908) .

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