Jean-Baptiste Gramaye

Jean-Baptiste Gramaye (Antwerp, 1579 - Lübeck, 1635) was an early modern historian of the Southern Netherlands. He studied law and became a professor at Leuven University. Later he was employed as court historian by Albert VII, Archduke of Austria. For five months in 1619 he was a prisoner in Barbary, an experience that changed the focus of his scholarship from the Low Countries to Africa.

Works Andromede Belgica dicta Alberto Austriaco, Isabellae Clarae Eugeniae acta a Falconis alumnis, tertio ab inauguratis principibus die (Leuven, Laurence Kellam, 1600) Asia, sive historia universalis Asiaticarum gentium et rerum domi forisque gestarum (Brussels, Widow and Heirs of Joannes Bellerus, 1604) Available on Google Books Gallo-Brabantia (Brussels, Jan Mommaert, 1606) Available on Google Books Bruxella cum suo comitatu (Brussels, Jan Mommaert, 1606) Available on Google Books Thenae et Brabantia ultra velpam quae olim Hasbaniae pars (Brussels, Jan Mommaert, 1606) Available on Google Books Arscotum Ducatus cum suis Baronatibus (Brussels, Jan Mommaert, 1606) Available on Google Books and KU Leuven Special Collections (high quality) Historia Brabantica (Leuven, Joannes Masius, 1607) Available on Google Books Historiæ et antiqvitatvm vrbis Cameracensis svmma capita ex memoriis (Brussel, Rutger Velpius, 1608) Available at KU Leuven Special Collections Antverpiae antiquitates (Brussels, Jan Mommaert, 1610) Available on Google Books Antiquitates illustrissimi ducatus Brabantiae (Brussels, Jan Mommaert, 1610) Available on Google Books Taxandria (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1610) Available on Google Books Flandria Franca (Lille, Christophe Beys, 1612) Available on Google Books Rerum Duacensium Libri Tres (Douai, Jan Bogard; Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen; etc., 1618) Available on Google Books Africae illustratae libri decem (Tournai, Adrien Quinque, 1622) Available on Google Books Specimen linguarum et litterarum orbis nostri (Leuven, Joannes Masius, 1622) Available in Bibliothèque nationale de France Diarium rerum Argelae gestarum ab anno MDCXIX (Cologne, Albinus Dusseldorpff, 1623) Available on Google Books Respublica Namurcensis, Hannoniae et Lutsenburgensis (Amsterdam, Jan Janssens, 1634) Available on Google Books Antiquitates belgicae, published posthumously, 1708.