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HOLSTENIUS, LUCAS

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HOLSTENIUS, See also:LUCAS , the Latinized name of Luc Holste (x596–1661), See also:German humanist, geographer and theological writer, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg. He studied at See also:Leiden university, where he became intimate with the most famous scholars of the See also:age—J. See also:Meursius, D. See also:Heinsius and P. Cluverius, whom he accompanied on his travels in See also:Italy and See also:Sicily. Disappointed at his failure to obtain a See also:post in the gymnasium of his native See also:town, he See also:left See also:Germany for See also:good. Having spent two years in See also:Oxford and See also:London, he went to See also:Paris. Here he obtained the patronage of N. de Peiresc, who recommended him to See also:Cardinal See also:Francesco See also:Barberini, papal See also:nuncio and the possessor of the most important private library in See also:Rome. On the cardinal's return in 1627 he took Holstenius to live with him in his See also:palace and made him his librarian. Although converted to See also:Roman Catholicism in 1625, Holstenius showed his liberal-mindedness by strenuously opposing the strict censorship exercised by the See also:Congregation of the See also:Index. He was appointed librarian of the Vatican by See also:Innocent X., and was sent to See also:Innsbruck by See also:Alexander VII. to receive See also:Queen See also:Christina's See also:abjuration of Protestantism. He died in Rome on the 2nd of See also:February 166.

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man of unwearied See also:industry and immense learning, but he lacked the persistency to carry out the vast See also:literary schemes he had planned. He was the author of notes on Cluvier's Italia antiqua (1624); an edition of portions of Porphyrius (163o), with a dissertation on his See also:life and writings, described as a See also:model of its See also:kind; notes on See also:Eusebius Against II rocles (1628), on the Sayings of the later Pythagoreans (1638), and the De diis et mundo of the neo-Platonist Sallustius (1638); Notae et castigationes in See also:Stephan Byzantini ethnica (first published in r684); and Codex regularum, Collection of the See also:Early Rules of the Monastic Orders (1661). His See also:correspondence (Epistolae ad diversos, ed. J. F. Boissenade, 1817) is a valuable source of See also:information on the literary See also:history of his See also:time. See N. Wilckens, Leben See also:des gelehrten Lucae Holstenii (Hamburg, 1723) ; Johann Moller, Cimbria literata, iii. (1744).

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