Jakob Gronovius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jakob Gronovius

Dutch classical scholar

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1645

Place of Birth: Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands

Date of Death: 21-Oct-1716

Profession: writer, professor, historian, university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jacobus Gronovius a.k.a.
Jacob Gronow (10 October 1645 in Deventer – 21 October 1716 in Leiden) was a Dutch classical scholar. He was the son of the German classical scholar Johann Friedrich Gronovius and Aleyda ten Nuyl from Deventer, and father of the botanist Jan Frederik Gronovius.
His family moved to Leiden in 1658 and he married Anna van Vredenburch from Rotterdam on 5 May 1680.Gronovius is chiefly known as the editor of the Thesaurus antiquitatum Graecarum (1697–1702, in 13 volumes).