Gronovius

Gronovius, the Latinised form of Gronov, the name of a family of scholars of German extraction, settled in Holland, the principal members of which were: John Frederic Gronovius, born at Hamburg in 1611, studied at Leipzig, Jena, and Altdorf, became in 1643 professor at Deventer, and in 1658 at Leyden, where he died in 1671. He edited Livy, Statius, Tacitus, Plædrus, Seneca, Sallust, Pliny, and Plautus, and published many works showing a profound knowledge of Roman antiquities, among them his Observationes et Commentarius de Sestertis.—James Gronovius, son of the preceding, born at Deventer in 1645, studied partly there and partly at Leyden, occupied for two years a chair at Pisa, was appointed in 1679 to his father's chair, which he held till his death in 1716. His works were his Thesaurus Antiquitatum Græcorum (15 vols. 1697–1702), and editions of Polybius, Herodotus, Cicero, and Ammianus Marcellinus.—Abraham Gronovius, son of the preceding, born at Leyden in 1694, became librarian to the university, and died there in 1775. He showed himself worthy of the traditions of his house by his excellent editions of Justinus Pomponius Mela and Tacitus.—John Frederick, an eminent botanist, brother of the preceding, was born at Leyden in 1690, and died there in 1760. His works were Flora Virginica (1743) and Flora Orientalis (1765).—Laurence Theodore Gronovius, son of the preceding, born 1730, died at Leyden, 1778, author of Museum ichthyologicum (1754–56); Zoophylacium Gronovianum (1763–81); and Bibliotheca regni animalis (1760).