Daniel Heinsius
Daniël Heinsius (or Heyns ; born June 9, 1580 in Gent , † February 25, 1655 in The Hague ) was a well-known scholar of the Dutch Renaissance .
Life
In 1583, Heinsius' Protestant parents fled the Spanish Netherlands with their children . They first settled in Veere in Zeeland , then moved to England for a short time , later to Rijswijk , and finally settled in Vlissingen . When he was 16, his father sent him to Franeker University to study law . He stayed there for half a year and then moved to Leiden University , where he spent the remaining sixty years of his life as a librarian at the Leiden University Library . Here he studied with Joseph Justus Scaliger , made contact with Philips van Marnix, Lord of Mont Saint Aldegonde , Janus Dousa (1545–1604), Paulus Merula and others.
His knowledge of the classical languages has been praised by respected scholars from all over Europe. He turned down offers for abroad, he did not want to accept a position outside the Netherlands, no matter how honorable it was. In 1602 he was appointed professor of Latin , 1605 professor of Greek , and in 1607, after Merula's death, he followed him as the university's librarian.
Heinsius' Dutch poems belong to the school of Roemer Visscher (1547–1620), do not reach a high level, but were nevertheless admired by Martin Opitz , who, as a pupil of Heinsius, introduced the rhyming Alexandrian to Germany with the translation of his poems .
In 1616 he published his collected Dutch poems in one volume. He published Terence in 1618, Livy in 1620 and published his didactic poem De contemptu mortis in 1621, as well as the epistles of Joseph Justus Scaliger in 1627.
Daniel Heinsius is the father of the philologist and neo-Latin poet Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder (1620–1681) and the grandfather of the writer Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger (1656–1718).
Works
- Iambi (1602),
- Elegiae (1603)
- Emblemata amatoria , poems in Dutch and Latin, were first printed in 1604
- Poemata (1605);
- Hesiod (1603)
- Theocritus (1604), Bion and Moschos (1604)
- Latin speeches (1609)
- Horace (1610)
- Aristotle , Seneca (1611)
- The Massacre of the Innocents ( tragedy ) (1613)
- De politica sapientia (1614)
literature
- Eckard Lefèvre , Eckart Schäfer (eds.): Daniel Heinsius. Classical philologist and poet. Narr, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8233-6339-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Daniel Heinsius in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Daniel Heinsius in the German Digital Library
- Publications by and about Daniel Heinsius in VD 17 .
- Dan. Heinsii De Tragoediae Constitutione Liber, Lugduni Batavorum 1643
- Danielis Heinsii Oratio Politica, Leiden 1617 - in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Digital Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinsius, Daniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Daniel Heins |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scholar of the Dutch Renaissance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1580 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghent |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1655 |
| Place of death | The hague |