Schrevelius
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Schrevelius is a latinized Dutch name that means scrivener
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The following writers were called Schrevelius:
Scrivener
A scrivener was traditionally a person who could read and write. This usually indicated secretarial and administrative duties such as dictation and keeping business, judicial, and history records for kings, nobles, temples, and cities...
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The following writers were called Schrevelius:
- Theodorus SchreveliusTheodorus SchreveliusTheodorus Schrevelius was a Dutch Golden Age writer and poet.-Biography:He was born in Haarlem, and in 1591 went to study Greek and Latin at the University of Leiden. He became the assistant director of the Latin school in Haarlem in 1597, where he also started work on translating Ovid...
, 1572-1649, humanist and rector of the Stedelijk Gymnasium HaarlemStedelijk Gymnasium HaarlemThe Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem or the Latin School of Haarlem is an elite secondary school in Haarlem, The Netherlands. It is regarded as one of the most prestigious and academically rigorous schools in The Netherlands. The school was founded in 1389 and is therefore one of the oldest schools in...
and the Latin school in Leiden - His son Cornelis SchrevelCornelis SchrevelCornelis Schrevel was a Dutch physician and scholar. He studied medicine at Leiden University and replaced his father Theodorus Schrevelius as head of the college faculty at Leiden in 1642; published a Latin-Greek lexicon; and edited many classical authors, including an edition of Curtius Rufus...
, 1608-1661, linguist and rector of the Latin school in Leiden