CLUWER (CLUVER, CLUVIER, CLUVERIUS), PHILIP (1580 1623 ), German geographer and historian, was born at Danzig. He studied law at Leyden, but soon turned his attention to his tory and geography, which were then taught there by Joseph Scaliger. He finally settled in Holland, where (after 1616) he received a regular pension from Leyden academy. In 1611 he began to publish his works. He died at Leyden in 1623. His principal writings are : Germania Antigua (1616), Siciliae An tiquae libri duo, Sardinia et Corsica Antigua (1619), and the post humous Italia Antigua (1624) and Introductio in Universam Geographiam