Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder
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Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder was a Dutch classical scholar, poet and diplomat. He travelled all over Europe to visit the major libraries and over time collected Europe's largest private library in the
Portrait of Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder by Willem van Mieris
Title page of Poemata (1653)
Claudius Salmasius
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Claude Saumaise, also known by the Latin name Claudius Salmasius, was a French classical scholar.
Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder
…hurriedly to Leiden. Soon after he was invited to Stockholm by Christina of Sweden. At the Swedish court he became embroiled in a heated dispute with Claudius Salmasius over the Greek of the New Testament. The quarrel became both highly personal and widely known, and Heinsius as university librarian refused him access…
Dissertatio de foenore trapezitico, 1640
Portrait by David Bailly
De usuris liber, 1638