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GRONOVIUS (the latinized See also:form of GROrrov), JOHANN See also:FRIEDRICH (1611—1671)  , See also:German classical See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg on the 8ah of See also:September 1611 . Having studied at several See also:universities, he travelled in See also:England, See also:France and See also:Italy . In 1643 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:rhetoric and See also:history at See also:Deventer, and in 1658 to the See also:Greek See also:chair at See also:Leiden, where he died on the 28th of See also:December 1671 . (See also See also:FABRETTI, See also:RAPHAEL.) Besides editing, with notes, See also:Statius, See also:Plautus, See also:Livy, See also:Tacitus, Aulus See also:Gellius and See also:Seneca's tragedies, See also:Gronovius was the author, amongst numerous other See also:works, of Commentarius de sestertiis (1643) and of an edition of See also:Hugo See also:Grotius' De jure See also:belli et pacis (166o) . His Observationes contain a number of brilliant emendations . His son, See also:JAKOB GRONOVIUS (1645—1716), is chiefly known as the editor of the See also:Thesaurus antiquitatum Graecarum (1697—1702, in 13 volumes).; See J . E . See also:Sandys, Hist. of Class . Schol. ii . (1908) ; F . A . Eckstein in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie .

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