Heinsius

(1) Daniel (Daniel Heins), a distinguished scholar of the so-called “Dutch Renaissance.” He was born at Ghent, June 9th, 1580. In 1594 he entered the University of Francken to perfect himself in Greek, having already won notice by his scholarship. Soon after he settled at Leyden, where he spent the remainder of his life, associated with such men as Joseph Scaliger, Douza, and Paulus Merula. In 1602 he was made Professor of Latin at the University, in 1605 Professor of Greek, and in 1607 University Librarian. He died at the Hague, February 25th, 1655.

His works include editions of Silius Italicus (1600), Hesiod (1603), Theocritus, Bion , and Moschus (1604), Horace (1610), Aristotle and Seneca (1611), Terence (1618), Livy (1620), Ovid (1629), and the Epistolae of Joseph Scaliger (1627). He also published three volumes of original Latin poems —Iambi (1602), Elegiae (1603), Poemata (1605)—and poems in Dutch and Latin (1604). See L. Müller, Geschichte d. class. Philologie in den Nieder landen, pp. 38 foll. (Leipzig, 1869).

(2) His son Nikolaes was also a scholar of much distinction (born 1620, died 1681). He spent the greater part of his life in travel for the purpose of studying and collating classical MSS. He published editions of Ovid (1652; 3d ed. 1661), Paterculus (1678), and Valerius Flaccus (1680).