HEINSIUS or HEINS, DANIEL (158o-1655), one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance, was born at Ghent on June 9, 1580, and died at The Hague on Feb. 25, The troubles of the Spanish war drove his parents to settle first at Veere in Zeeland, then in England, next at Ryswick and lastly at Flushing. In 1594 he was sent to the University of Franeker; six months later he went to Leyden, where he remained for the rest of his life, becoming professor and then librarian. There he studied under Joseph Scaliger, and there he found Marnix de St. Alde gonde, Janus Douza, Paulus Merula and others, and was soon taken into the society of these celebrated men as their equal. His proficiency in the classic languages won the praise of all the best scholars of Europe, and offers were made to him, but in vain, to accept honourable positions outside Holland. The remainder of his life is recorded in a list of his productions. He published his original Latin poems in three volumes—Iambi (1602), Elegiae (1603) and Poemata (16o5) ; his Emblemata amatoria, poems in Dutch and Latin, were first printed in 1604. In the same year he edited Theocritus, Bion and 1`Ioschus, having edited Hesiod in 1603. In 1609 he printed his Latin Orations. In 1610 he edited Horace, and in 1611 Aristotle and Seneca. In 1613 appeared in Dutch his tragedy of The Massacre of the Innocents; and in 1614 his treatise De politica sapientia. In 1616 he collected his original Dutch poems into a volume. He edited Terence in 1618, Livy in 1620, published his oration De contemptu mortis in 1621, and brought out the Epistles of Joseph Scaliger in 1627.