GRONO'VIUS. The Latinized name of two distinguished Dutch classical scholars of the seventeenth century. (1) JOHANN FRIEDRICH GRONOV ( 1611-71), born at Hamburg, Septem ber 8, 1611. He became professor of history first at Deventer (1642), and then professor of Greek at Leyden (1658), and acquired an inter national reputation for profound learning. He was a prolific writer, publishing critical editions of Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Seneca, Statius, Tacitus, Pliny, and Aulus Gellius; and edited the works of his friend Hugo Grotius (q.v.). All his work was in Latin, as his De lure Belli et Paris Libri Tres 1642). He died at Leyden, December 28, 1671. (2) JACOBUS GRONOV (1645-1716), son of the pre ceding, born at Deventer, became a scholar of great renown. He traveled in England, France, and Italy, meeting the greatest classical scholars of those countries. At the invitation of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, he accepted the chair of law in the University of Pisa, but returned to Leyden in 1679 to fill the chair of Greek liter ature and history in that university. He brought
out many editions of his father's texts, and in addition published annotated editions of Herod otus, Ccbetis Tabula. Polybius. Cicero, Tacitus, Gellius, Minutius Felix. and Aintnianus Marcel Units. But his greatest work was the Thesaurus Antiquitatuni Grwearum, in thirteen folio vol macs. published at Leyden, 1698-1702. He en gaged in many learned controversies with other scholars, in which his irascible temperament led him to personal abuse and scurrility. Notable were his sarcastic letters to Fabretti (q.v.), Respousio ad ('orillationes Raphaeli Fabretti (Leyden, 1685), and to Voss (q.v.), Epistula do Argutiolis Isaei T'osii (Leyden, 1687). Cm novius died at Leyden, October 21, 1716.