GRONOVIUS (the latinized form of GxoNov), JOHANN FRIEDRICH (1611-1671), German classical scholar and critic, was born at Hamburg. In 1643 he was appointed professor of rhetoric and history at Deventer, and in 1658 to the Greek chair at Leyden, where he died (see also FABRETTI, RAPHAEL). Besides editing, with notes, Statius, Plautus, Livy, Tacitus, Aulus Gellius and Seneca's tragedies, Gronovius was the author, amongst numer ous other works, of Commentarius de sestertiis (1643) and of an edition of Hugo Grotius' De jure belli et pacis (i660). His Observationes contain a number of brilliant emendations.
See J. E. Sandys Hist. of Class. Schol. ii. (1908) ; F. A. Eckstein in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopddie.