CLU VE'RIUS (CLUWER), PHILIP, was born at Danzig in 1530. His father intending him for the profession of the law, sent him to study at Leyden ; but Cluverius showed more disposition for the study of geography and antiquities, and was encouraged in his bias by his acquaintance with Joseph Scaliger. In a journey which he made to Louvain and Antwerp for the purpose of meeting Justus Lipsius, he fell in with some marauding soldiers, who stripped him of everything. On his return to Holland, finding that his father, being dissatisfied with his conduct, had stopped all remittances for hie support, he joined the troops of the emperor, and served for two years in Hungary and Bohemia. In the latter country he made the acquaintance of a Baron Popel, who, being arrested by order of the emperor, had written a pamphlet in his defence, which Cluverius undertook to translate into Latin, and published it on his return to Holland. The pamphlet being considered offensive, Cluvcrius was imprisoned, at the request of the imperial ambassador to the States-GeneraL He was soon after released, and his mother having sent him some supply of money, he set out on his travels to England, where he wrote 'De Tribes Rheni Alveis; Ito. Returning to the continent, he travelled through France and Germany, and published his Germania Antique,' folio, Leyden, 1016. It is a
work of considerable research, intermixed with much conjecture. Having made a journey into Italy, ho was well received there, ewe dirtily at Rome and Bologna, where his familiar acquaintance with most of the European languages excited great admiration. His next work, 'Sicilia) Autiqux Libri Duo,' to which he added a short description of Sardinia and Corsica, folio, 1019, has been considered by many as his best work. On his return to Holland from Italy, he suffered severe domestic losses, and hie health rapidly declined. It was under these circumstances that he wrote his ' Italia Antique; which was published after his death, a work of great research, but ono that requires cor rection from the more exact observations or discoveries of later geogra phers and antiquarians. Cluverius wrote also An Introduction to Universal Geography,' which has been repeatedly published. He died at Leyden in 1623, forty-three years of age. Danielle Heinsii, ' Oratio in obitum P. Cluverii,' at the end of the Introduction to Geography,' Leyden, 1624, gives an account of the principal incidents of Cluverius's life.