GRONO'VIUS, the Latinised form of Gronov, was the name of a family originally from Germany, hut settled in Holland, several members of which distinguished themselves by their classical learning in the 17th and 18th centuries.
JoITN FREDERrO ORONOV, born at Hamburg in 1611, studied at Leipzig, Jena, and Altdorf ; travelled through Holland, England, France, and Italy ; was appointed professor of belles-lettres at Leyden in 1658. He died in 1671. He published editions of several of the classics, finch as Livy, Sallust, Seneca, Pliny, &c. He wrote-' De Sesterciis, sou Subsecivorum Pecunite veteris Grrecee et Romance, libri iv.,' Deventer, 1643, republished with important additions by his eon James Gronovins, Leyden, 1691; 'De Musmo Alexandrine Exer citations, Academicee ; ' ' Lectiones Plautinre, quibus non taciturn fabulm Plautinre et Terentianro, verum etiam Caesar, Cicero, Livius, iIluatrantur; Amsterdam, 1740 ; and other works of classical erudition.
Janes dacecortes, elder son of the preceding, barn at Deventer 1 in 1645, showed from early youth a great aptitude for philological studies. He pnblished numerous editions of the Greek and Roman classics, amen; others of Iferodotus, Polybius, Macrobtus, Aulus Genius, Tacitus, ko.; but the work by which he is best known is the `Theueurus Antiqultatum Grecarum: 13 vole. fol., Leyden, 1697, enriched with engravings of mythical and historical personages, of monuments and other remarkable objects illustrative of the arts, customs, and history of ancient Greece, copied from ancient sepultures and medals, and disposed in order of time. He also published
Georraphi Antiqui,' 2 vols. 4to, Leyden, 1694. dronovius, after travelling through various countries of Europe, was appointed by the Grand-Duke of Tuscany professor of belles-lettres In the University of Pisa. After two years he returned to Holland, in 1679, and filled the earns chair, as professor in the University of Leyden, which his father bad occupied before him. He died at Leyden in 1710. Gronovius, unlike his father, was fond ofpolemics, in which he was lavish of hard words and abuse. [Fsbuterrt.] Niceron, in his 'lldmoires, has given a list of all his works.
Asuman Gaoxerirs, eldest son of James, a physician of some reputation. wrote also several works on subjects of classical erudition, such as ' Vaal Geographies,' 8vo, Leyden, 1739, being a collection of dissertations and notes in Illustration of ancient geography ; he also published a good edition of Juatinus, Svo, Leyden, 1760, adding his own notes to those of his grandfather John Frederic dronoviue, of Is. Voisin', Gran-tux, Fabri, and others, and subjoining a copious index.
LAnREx?t78 TrIZOPEILCS GRONOVIVS, younger brother to James, published 'Emendations Pandectarum juxta Florentinum exemplar,' Leyden, 1685, which he dedicated to Magliabecchl, with whom both he and his brother had become intimate while in Italy. He also con tributed to his brother's ' Thesaurus,' and to the Varia Geographica ' of his nephew Abraham.