Petrus Scriverius, the Latinized form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver (12 January 1576 – 30 April 1660) was a Dutch

Netherlands

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 writer

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 and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium.

He was born at Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, and educated at the University of Leiden, where he formed a close intimacy with Daniel Heinsius

Daniel Heinsius

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. From 1611 to 1613 he was headmaster of the Latin School in Duisburg, today's Landfermann-Gymnasium

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. He belonged to the party of Oldenbarnevelt

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 and Grotius, and brought down the displeasure of the government by a copy of Latin verses in honor of their friend Hoogerbeets. Most of his life was passed in Leiden, but in 1650 he became blind, and the last years of his life were spent in his sons house at Oudewater

Oudewater

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, where he died in 1660.

He is best known as a scholar by his notes on Martial

Martial

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, Ausonius

Ausonius

Decimius Magnus Ausonius was a Latin poet and rhetorician, born at Burdigala .-Biography:Decimius Magnus Ausonius was born in Bordeaux in ca. 310. His father was a noted physician of Greek ancestry and his mother was descended on both sides from long-established aristocratic Gallo-Roman families...

, the Pervigilium Veneris

Pervigilium Veneris

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; editions of the poems of Joseph Justus Scaliger

Joseph Justus Scaliger

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 (Leiden, 1615), of the De re militari of Vegetius Renatus, the tragedies of Seneca

Seneca the Younger

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 (P. Scriverii collectanea veterum tragicorum, 1621), &c. His Opera anecdota, philologica, et poetica (Utrecht, 1738) was edited by A. H. Westerhovius, and his Nederduitsche Gedichten (1738) by S. Dockes.

He made many valuable contributions to the history of Holland: Batavia Illustrata (4 parts, Leiden, 1609); Corte historische Beschryvinghe der Nederlandscher Oorlogen (1612); Inferioris Germaniae . . . historia (1611, 4 parts); Beschryvinghe van Out Batavien (Arnheim, 1612); Het oude Goutsche chronycxken van Hollandt, as editor, and printed at Amsterdam in 1663; and Principes Hollandiae Zelandiae et Frisiae (Haarlem, 1650), translated (1678) into Dutch by Pieter Brugman.

See also Peerlkamp, Vitae Belgarum qui latina carmina scripserunt (Brussels, 1822), and J. H. Hoeufft, Parnassus latino-belgicus (Amsterdam, 1819).