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HEINSIUS (or HEINS) DANIEL (1580-1655)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEINSIUS (or HEINS) See also:DANIEL (1580-1655)  , one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch See also:Renaissance, was See also:born at See also:Ghent on the 9th of See also:June 1580 . The troubles of the See also:Spanish See also:war drove his parents to See also:settle first at See also:Veere in See also:Zeeland, then in See also:England, next at See also:Ryswick and lastly at See also:Flushing . In 1594, being already remarkable for his attainments, he was sent to the university of See also:Franeker to perfect himself in See also:Greek under Henricus Schotanus . He stayed at Franeker See also:half a See also:year, and then settled at See also:Leiden for the remaining sixty years of his See also:life . There he studied under See also:Joseph See also:Scaliger, and there he found Marnix de St Aldegonde, See also:Janus Douza, See also:Paulus See also:Merula and others, and was soon taken into the society of these celebrated men as their equal . His proficiency in the classic See also:languages won the praise of all the best scholars of See also:Europe, and offers were made to him, but in vain, to accept See also:honourable positions outside See also:Holland . He soon See also:rose in dignity at the university of 'Leiden . In 1602 he was made See also:professor of Latin, in 16o5 professor of Greek, and at the See also:death of Merula in X607 he succeeded that illustrious See also:scholar as librarianto the university . The See also:remainder of his life is recorded in a See also:list of his productions . He died at the See also:Hague on the 25th of See also:February 1655 . The Dutch See also:poetry of See also:Heinsius is of the school of See also:Roemer Visscher, but attains no very high excellence . It was, however, greatly admired by See also:Martin Opitz, who was the See also:pupil of Heinsius, and who, in translating the poetry of the latter, introduced the See also:German public to the use of the rhyming alexandrine .

He published his See also:

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 See also:Theocritus, See also:Bion and See also:Moschus, having edited See also:Hesiod 1n 1603 . In 1609 he printed his Latin Orations . In 1610 he edited See also:Horace, and in 1611 See also:Aristotle and See also:Seneca . In 1613 appeared in Dutch his tragedy of The See also:Massacre of the Innocents; and in 1614 his See also:treatise De politica sapientia . In 1616 he collected his original Dutch poems into a See also:volume . He edited See also:Terence in 1618, See also:Livy in 162o, published his oration De contemptu mortis in 1621, and brought out the Epistles of Joseph Scaliger in 1627 .

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