Hadrianus Junius

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Hadrianus Junius, by Theodor de Bry .

Hadrianus Junius (actually: Adriaen de Jonghe ; born July 1, 1511 in Hoorn , Netherlands, † June 16, 1575 in Middelburg ) was a Dutch humanist , doctor, historian , philologist and poet .

Life

After high school in Haarlem and scientific studies in various countries it was found in 1540 Bologna as a doctor of medicine and philosophy doctorate . After stays in Paris and England in 1562/3 he was educator of the Crown Prince of Denmark, later King Christian IV. In 1563 he returned to Haarlem, where he became city doctor and rector of the grammar school. After he was appointed historian by the states of Holland in 1564, he resigned from his position as rector in 1569 in order to be able to devote himself entirely to his works, especially to the Batavia . During the siege of Haarlem he was called to Delft to assist the sick Prince Wilhelm I as a doctor. After the capture of Haarlem by the Spaniards and the looting of its extensive library, he went to Middelburg in 1573 , where he became a city doctor in 1574 and died a year later.

He was married twice, first to Maria Wilhelmina Keizers and, after her death, to Hadriana Hasselaer. From his first marriage he had two children, Petrus and Clara, and from his second marriage there were eight more children.

Works

He was considered a great scholar throughout his life, Justus Lipsius even called him the most learned Dutchman after Erasmus . He published in many different fields: Latin poetry, commentaries on ancient authors, studies of medicine and linguistics, historical works. His best-known work is Batavia (1588), which he wrote between 1566 and 1570 and which was intended as the first part of a larger historical work of the Netherlands, which he could no longer complete.

  • Batavia. In qua praeter Gentis et Insulae Antiquitatem Originem, Decora, Mores, aliaque ad eam Historiam pertinentia, declaratur, quae fuerit vetus Batavia, quae Plinio, Tacito, Ptolomaeo cognita, quae etiam genuina inclytae Francorum nationis fuerit sedes . Lugd. Bat. 1588.
  • Nomenclator omnium rerum propria nomina variis linguis explicata indicans . Antwerp 1567.

literature

  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden, bevattende levensbeschrijvingen van zoodanige people, who zich op eenigerlei wijze in ons vaderland vermaard made. JJ Van Brederode Verlag, Haarlem, 1877, Vol. 9, 235-243 ( online , Dutch).
  • Brugmans: JUNIUS (Hadrianus) . In: Nieuw Nederlands Biografisch Woordenboek. (NNBW), Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (ING), AW Sijthoff, Leiden, 1927, vol. 7, col. 691-692 (Dutch).
  • Jakob Franck :  Junius, Hadrian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 736 f.
  • Dirk van Miert, Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575). Een humanist uit Hoorn , Hoorn (Bas Baltus Publicatiestichting), 2011 (Dutch).
  • Dirk van Miert (Ed.), The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575). Northern Humanism at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age , Leiden and Boston (Brill) 2011.
  • Nico de Glas, Holland is an island. De Batavia van Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) , Hilversum (Lost) 2011 (Dutch).
  • Chris Heesakkers and Dirk van Miert, 'An Inventory of the Correspondence of Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575)', Lias , vol. 37, 2010, no. 2, pp. 209-368.
  • P. Scheltema: Diatribe in Hadriani Junii vitam, ingenium, familiam, merita literaria , Schonekat, 1836 ( Google Books ).
  • P. Scheltema: Oud en nieuw, uit de vaderlandsche geschiedenis en letterkunde , Portielje, 1844, 133–173 ( Google Books , Dutch).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brugmans, NNBW , 1927, 691. Scheltema, Oud en Nieuw , 1844, 142-143.
  2. ^ Brugmans, NNBW , 1927, 691.
  3. ↑ Van der AA, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden , 1877, Vol. 9, 237.Scheltema, Oud en Nieuw , 1844, 157.
  4. ↑ Brugmans, NNBW , 1927, 691. Scheltema, Oud en Nieuw , 1844, 160-3 claims, however, that he died in Arnemuiden and was later buried in Middelburg.
  5. ↑ Van der AA, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden, 1877, 238.

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personal data
SURNAME Junius, Hadrianus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adriaen de Jonghe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION humanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1511
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoorn
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1575
Place of death Middelburg