GRAEVIUS (properly GRAVE or GREFFE), JOHANN GEORG (1632-1703)

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GRAEVIUS (properly GRAVE or GREFFE), JOHANN GEORG (1632-1703) , German classical scholar and critic, was born at Naumburg, Saxony, on the 29th of January 1632. He was originally intended for the law, but having made the acquaintance of J. F. Gronovius during a casual visit to

Deventer

DEVENTER

, under his influence he abandoned jurisprudence for philology. He completed his studies under D. Heinsius at Leiden, and under the

Protestant

PROTESTANT

theologians A. Morus and D. Blonde] At

Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM
AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

. During his residence in

Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM
AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

, under

Blondel

's influence he abandoned Lutheranism and joined the Reformed Church; and in 1656 he was called by the elector of Brandenburg to the chair of rhetoric in the university of

Duisburg

DUISBURG

. Two years afterwards, on the recommendation of Gronovius, he was chosen to succeed that scholar at

Deventer

DEVENTER

; in 1662 he was translated to the university of Utrecht, where he occupied first the chair of rhetoric, and from 1667 until his death (January 11th, 1703) that of history and politics. Graevius enjoyed a very high reputation as a teacher, and his lecture-room was crowded by pupils, many of them of distinguished rank, from all parts of the civilized world. He was honoured with

special

SPECIAL

recognition by Louis XIV., and was a particular favourite of William III. of England, who made him historiographer royal.
His two most important works are the Thesaurus antiquilatum Romanarum (16941699, in 12 volumes), and the Thesaurus antiquitatum et historiarum Italiae published after his death, and continued by the elder Burmann (17041725). His editions of the classics, although they marked a distinct advance in scholarship, are now for the most part superseded. They include Hesiod'(1667), Lucian, Pseudosophista (1668),

Justin

JUSTIN (JUNIANUS JUSTINUS)

, Historiae Philippicae (1669), Suetonius (1672), Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius (168o), and several of the works of Cicero (his best production). He also edited many of the writings of contemporary scholars. The Oratio funebris by P. Burmann (1703) contains an exhaustive

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST,
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1789-1846)

of the works of this scholar; see also P. H. Kulb in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopadie, and J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, ii. (1908).

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