Jacobus Gronovius a.k.a. Jacob Gronow (10 October 1645, Deventer

Deventer

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 - 21 October 1716, Leiden) was a Dutch

Netherlands

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 classical scholar.

He was the son of the German classical scholar Johann Friedrich Gronovius

Johann Friedrich Gronovius

Johann Friedrich Gronovius was a German classical scholar and critic....

 and Aleyda ten Nuyl from Deventer, and father of the botanist Jan Frederik Gronovius

Jan Frederik Gronovius

Jan Frederik Gronovius was a Dutch botanist notable as a patron of Linnaeus....

. His family moved to Leiden in 1658 and he married Anna van Vredenburch from Rotterdam on 5 May 1680 http://www.gronovius.com/f_1.html#20.

Gronovius is chiefly known as the editor of the Thesaurus antiquitatum Graecarum (1697-1702, in 13 volumes).