HEINS1US, DANIEL, was born at Ghent in 1580 or 1581. He was taken to England at an early age by his father, who was obliged to leave Holland in consequence of the part he took in the wars which then prevailed In his native country. His father returned to Holland after a short time, and sent his son, at the age of fourteen, to study law at Franekcr. But Heiusiue, contrary to the wish of his father, resolved to study ancient literature; and accordingly, after remaining at Franeker only six months, he went to Leyden, where he prosecuted the study of the classics' under Joseph Scaliger. At the age of eighteen' he explained the Latin classes in the university, and seven years after wards was appointed professor of history and politics. In 1607 ho was made librarian and secretary to the university. Ileinsius was oonaldered one of the moat learned men of his time, and was repeat edly solicited by many of the monarchs of Europe to ecttlo in their dominions; but he refused to leave his native country, in which ho died on the 23rd of February 1055, at the ago of seventy-five. He held the office of historian to the states of Holland, from which he received a handsome salary. Ile also took an active part in the theo logical warfare of the times, and was appointed secretary to the celebrated synod of Dort in 1618.
The name of Ileinelus is principally known by his editions of the Greek and Roman classics. But his Latin poems, which are seldom
read in the present day, were highly esteemed by his contemporaries ; they were published at Leyden iu 1602. He also wrote some poems in his native language, which were published by Petrus Scriverius in 1616.
The following is a list of the principal classical authors edited by Heinaius Crepundia Siliana, sive nate in Silium Hallman,' 1600; Theocritua, 1603; Healed, 1603; 'Paraphrasis Andronici Rhodii iu Aristotelis Ethica,' 1607, 1617 ; Maximi Tryril Dissertationes,' 1607, 1614 ; Dissertatio de Nonui Dionysiacia,' 1610; Senecas Trageedim,' 1611; 'Aristotelis Poetica,' 1611, 1643; Theophrastua Eresiva, 1611, 1613; 'Horatius et de Satire Horatiana,' 1612; 'Animadversiones et Notes in Horatii Opera,' 1629 ; Notes et Emendationes in Clementem Alexandrinum,' 1616 ; Terence, 1618 ; Paraphrasis Perpetua in Politica Ariatotelia,' 1621; 'Aristarchus sacer, sive Exercitationea ad Nonni Paraphrasin in Johannem,' 1627 ; Ovid, 1630, 1653, 1661 ; Livy, 1620, 1631, 1634; Aurelius Prudentius, 1637; Exercitationes Sacra) ad Novum Teatamentum; 1639. Heinsius was also the author of Rerurn ad Sylvan Ducis atque alibi iu Belgia aut a Belgis sun° 1629 Gestarum Historia,' fol., Leyden, 1631 ; Orationes varii Argu menti,' 12tne, Leyden, 1615, 1620.