Gerhardus Joannes Vossius (1577-1649)

Subject Fields

Theology, Rhethoric, Greek

Born

Heidelberg, Germany

Famous for

His books on rhetoric, poetics and, most importantly, his trilogy on linguistics: Arte grammatica libri septem (1635), Vitiis sermonis et glossematis Latino-barbaris libri quatuor (1645) and the Etymologicon linguae Latinae, published  after his death in 1662. And for being regent of the Leiden Regens collegii.

Researcher in Leiden

1625-1631

Today in Leiden

Vossius Square and the Regent House where Vossius lived: in Kaisersgracht next to where the University horses used to be kept.