Cornelius Schrevelius

Cornelius Schrevelius (born May 25, 1608 in Haarlem , † September 11, 1661 in Leiden ; also Cornelis Schrevel or Screvel ) was a Dutch classical philologist .

Cornelius Schrevelius around 1650. Inscription: Cornelius Schrevelius, MD & Gymnarsiarcha Lugd [unum] Batav [orum] = Cornelis Schrevel, Dr. med., headmaster in Leiden in Batavien

Life

Cornelis was initially tutored by his father Theodorus Schrevelius , studied medicine after the family moved to Leiden, did his doctorate there and was rector of the Leiden Latin School as successor to his father from 1642 and remained in this position until his death. Several times he was called to become a professor of medicine at the city's university, but he felt more drawn to philology.

He translated a large number of Latin and Greek writers and published a Greek-Latin lexicon in 1654, the "Lexicon manuale Graeco-Latinum et Latino-Graecum", which became a standard work and which saw numerous new editions well into the 19th century. In 1826 in Boston, USA, “The Greek lexicon of Schrevelius” appeared, the first Greek dictionary for use in American schools.

Through his marriage in 1636 to the patrician daughter Theodora van Groenendyck, he came into the notoriety of the city of Leiden and from then on featured in the coat of arms: three wolf hooks in a golden field.

Fonts (selection)

Lexicon manuale Graeco-Latinum et Latino-Graecum, Ad calcem adjecta sunt Sententiae Graeco-Latinae, quibus omnia primitiva Graeca comprehenduntur, item Tractatus duo: alter de Resolutione Verborum: alter de Articulis, uterque perutilis , 1st edition, Franciscus Hackius, Leiden 1654
Hesiodi Ascraei. Qvae Extant, Cum Notis, ex probatissimis ... Accedit insuper Pasoris Index .. (Contains the works: Works and Days, Shield of Hercules, Theogony ), new edition: Augusti Martini, Lipsiae (= Leipzig) 1730.
Epigrammata cum notis Farnabii et variorum . Franciscus Hackius, Leiden 1661

literature

Ernst Walter Röhrig: On the history of the Wesenfeld family , Volume 2, printed as a manuscript and provided with pictures, Barmen 1929, p. 25ff. (Wuppertal-Elberfeld City Library)
Erbslöh Archive , Julius Erbslöh Family Association, Springe 2008.
Richard Hoche: Schrevel, Cornelius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 491 f.
Schrevelius, Cornelius. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 35, Leipzig 1743, column 1177 f.
Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexikon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1750/51, p. 351.
Wilhelm Pökel : Philological Writer's Lexicon , Leipzig 1882, p. 250.

Individual evidence

↑ Date of death according to ADB. Röhrig, on the other hand, gives August 16, 1664 as the date of death, Zedler gives 1667.

Web links

Works by and about Cornelius Schrevelius in the German Digital Library
Engraved portrait of Cornelius Schrevelius
Cornelius Schrevelius in the family history of Erbslöh
The "Lexicon manuale" in its various editions with cover picture

personal data
SURNAME	Schrevelius, Cornelius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schrevel, Cornelis; Screvel, Cornelis; Screvel, Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1608
PLACE OF BIRTH	Haarlem
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1661
Place of death	Suffer

[1] Date of death according to ADB. Röhrig, on the other hand, gives August 16, 1664 as the date of death, Zedler gives 1667.