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EMMIUS, UBBO (1547–1625)

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EMMIUS, UBBO (1547–1625) , Dutch historian and geographer, was See also:born at Gretha in See also:East See also:Friesland on the 5th of See also:December 1547. After studying at See also:Rostock, he spent two years in See also:Geneva, where he became intimate with See also:Theodore See also:Beza; and returning to the See also:Netherlands was appointed the See also:principal of a See also:college at See also:Norden, a position which he lost in 1587 because, as a Calvinist, he would not subscribe to the See also:confession of See also:Augsburg. Subsequently he was See also:head of a college at See also:Leer, and in 1594 became See also:rector of the college at See also:Groningen, and when in 1614 this college became a university he was chosen principal and See also:professor of See also:history and See also:Greek, and by his See also:wise guidance and his learning speedily raised the new university to a position of See also:eminence. He was on friendly terms with See also:Louis, See also:count of See also:Nassau; corresponded with many of the learned men of his See also:time; and died at Groningen on the 9th of December 1625. He was twice married, and See also:left a son and a daughter. The See also:chief See also:works of Emmius are: Rerum Frisicarum historiae decades, in six parts, a See also:complete edition of which was published at See also:Leiden in 1616; See also:Opus chronologicum (Groningen, 1619); Vetus Graecia illustrata (Leiden, 1626); and Historia temporis nostri, which was first published at Groningen in 1732. An See also:account of his See also:life, written by See also:Nicholas Mulerius, was published, with the lives of other professors of Groningen, at Groningen in 1638. See N. G. See also:van See also:Kampen, Geschiedenis der letteren en wetenschappen in de Nederlanden (The See also:Hague, 1821-1826).

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