Gronovius Jakob

Gronovius, Jakob (1645-1716), was a Dutch scholar, born at Deventer and educated at Leyden.

He afterwards visited England, and collated MSS. at Oxford and Cambridge. In 1679 he edited Polybius, and then visited France, returning later to Leyden, and then going to Spain and Italy, in which country he did professional work for two years at Pisa. He then returned to Deventer, but was shortly made professor at Leyden, where he passed the rest of his life. Besides his chief work, Thesaurus antiquitatum Gra-carum, he edited many of the classical authors.