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MEIBOM, HEINRICH (1555-1625)

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MEIBOM, HEINRICH (1555-1625) , See also:German historian and poet, was See also:born at See also:Lemgo on the 4th of See also:December 1555, and died on the loth of See also:September 1625, at See also:Helmstedt, where he had held the See also:chair of See also:history and See also:poetry since 1583. He was a writer of Latin verses (Parodiarum horatianar'um libri III. et sylvarum libri II., 1588); and his talents in this direction were recognized by the See also:emperor See also:Rudolph II., who ennobled him; but his claim to be remembered rests on his services in elucidating the See also:medieval history of See also:Germany. His Opuscula historica ad res germanicas spectantia was edited and published in 166o by his See also:grandson, Heinrich Meibom (1638-1700), who was See also:professor of See also:medicine and then of history and poetry at Helmstedt, and incorporated his grandfather's See also:work with his own Rerum germanicarum scriptores (1688).

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