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HEINSIUS, NIKOLAES (1620-1681)
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See also:HEINSIUS, NIKOLAES (1620-1681) , Dutch See also:scholar, son of See also:Daniel Heinsius, was See also:born at See also:Leiden on the loth of See also:July 162o. His boyish Latin poem of See also:Breda expugnata was printed in 1637, and attracted much See also:attention. In 1642 he began his wanderings with a visit to See also:England in See also:search of See also:MSS. of the See also:classics; but he met with little See also:courtesy from the See also:English scholars. In 1644 he was sent to See also:Spa to drink the See also:waters; his See also:health restored, he set out once more in search of codices, passing through See also:Louvain, See also:Brussels, Mechlin, See also:Antwerp and so back to Leiden, everywhere collating MSS. and taking philological and textual notes. Almost immediately he set out again, and arriving in See also:Paris was welcomed with open arms by the See also:French savants. After investigating all the classical texts he could See also:lay hands on, he proceeded southwards, and visited on the same quest See also:Lyons, See also:Marseilles, See also:Pisa, See also:Florence (where he paused to issue a new edition of See also:Ovid) and See also:Rome. Next See also:year, 1647, found him in See also:Naples, from which he fled during the reign of See also:Masaniello; he pursued his labours in See also:Leghorn, See also:Bologna, See also:Venice and See also:Padua, at which latter See also:city he published in 1648 his See also:volume of See also:original Latin See also:verse entitled Italica. He proceeded to See also:Milan, and worked for a considerable See also:time in the Ambrosian library; he was preparing to explore See also:Switzerland in the same patient manner, when the See also:news of his See also:father's illness recalled him hurriedly to Leiden. He was soon called away to See also:Stockholm at the invitation of See also:Queen See also:Christina, at whose See also:court he waged See also:war with See also:Salmasius, who accused him of having supplied See also:Milton with facts from the See also:life of that See also:great but irritable scholar. Heinsius paid a flying visit to Leiden in 165o, but immediately returned to Stockholm. In 1651 he once more visited See also:Italy; the See also:remainder of his life was divided between See also:Upsala and See also: His latest labours were the editing of Velleius Paterculus in 1678, and of See also:Valerius See also:Flaccus in 1680. He died at the See also:Hague on the 7th of See also:October 1681. Nikolaes Heinsius was one of the purest and most elegant of Latinists, and if his scholarship was not quite so perfect as that of his father, he displayed higher gifts as an original writer. His illegitimate son, NIKOLAES HEINSIUS (b. 1655), was the author of The Delightful Adventures and Wonderful Life of Mirandor (1675), the single Dutch See also:romance of the 17th See also:century. He had to flee the See also:country in 1677 for committing a See also:murder in the streets of the Hague, and died in obscurity. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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