About Cornelis Schrevel
Lived 1608 – 1664 (aged 56). Cornelis Schrevel was a Dutch classical philologist and physician.
Cornelis Schrevel (bapt. 13 April 1608 – 1664) was a Dutch physician and scholar.
Schrevel was born in Haarlem. He studied medicine at Leiden University and replaced his father Theodorus Schrevelius as head of the college faculty at Leiden in 1642. He published a Latin-Greek lexicon and edited many classical authors, including an edition of Curtius Rufus owned by Thomas Jefferson. Among his other editions, Six authors of the Historia Augusta, Leyden 1661. He died in Leiden.
The Lexicon ran to scores of editions in half-a-dozen languages, to the early nineteenth century; an expansion of 1663 was edited by Joseph Hill.
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Who was Cornelis Schrevel?
Dutch scholar
When was Cornelis Schrevel born?
Cornelis Schrevel was born on 25 May 1608 in Haarlem.
When did Cornelis Schrevel die?
Cornelis Schrevel died on 26 August 1664 in Leiden.
What was Cornelis Schrevel's occupation?
Cornelis Schrevel was a classical philologist and physician.
What nationality was Cornelis Schrevel?
Cornelis Schrevel was Dutch.
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