Jan Gruter

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Jan Gruter

Jan Gruter (or Gruytere) (Latinized Janus Gruterus) (3 December 1560 – 20 September 1627) was a Dutch critic and scholar.

Life

Jan Gruter was Dutch on his father's side and English on his mother's, and was born at Antwerp. To avoid religious persecution his parents came to England while he was a child, and for some years he studied at Caius College, Cambridge,^[1] after which he went to Leiden, where he graduated with an M.A.

In 1586, Gruter was appointed professor of history at the University of Wittenberg, but, as he refused to subscribe the formula concordiae, he lost his position. From 1589 to 1592, he taught at Rostock, after which he went to Heidelberg, where in 1602 he was appointed librarian to the university.

Works

Gruter's chief works were his Inscriptiones antiquae totius orbis Romani (2 vols., Heidelberg, 1603), and Lampas, sive fax artium liberalium (7 vols., Frankfort, 1602–1634).

References

↑ "Gruter, Janus (GRTR577J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 61599137 LCCN: n85112413 ISNI: 0000 0001 0907 2252 GND: 115672060 BNF: cb12235136w

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Name	Gruter, Jan
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Short description	Dutch academic
Date of birth	3 December 1560
Place of birth
Date of death	20 September 1627
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