, or Van Merle, a very learned Hollander, was born at Dort, Aug. 19, 1558; and
, or Van Merle, a very learned Hollander, was born at Dort, Aug. 19, 1558; and went to
France and Geneva, to study the law. Afterwards he traTelled to Italy, Germany, and England; and, having been
absent nine years, returned to Dort. Here he frequented
the bar four years, and then quitted it for the professorship
of history, which was vacated by the cession of Justus Lipsius in 1592. It has been thought a sufficient encomium
on him that he was doemed worthy to succeed so great a
man. In 1598, the curators of the university of Leyden
joined to his professorship the office of public librarian, vacant by the death of the younger Dousa. He married in
1589, and had several children. He hurt his constitution so
much by an overstrained application to books, that he died
July 20, 1607, when he was no more than forty-nine.
Merula was the author or editor of several works, some of
the principal of which are, 1. “Q. Ennii annalium librorum xviii. fragmenta collecta & commentariis illustrata,
”
L. Bat. Eutropii Historiae Rom an Sb, libri x.
”
1592, 8vo; but more complete with the entire notes of
Glareanus and Merula, Leyden, 1594, 8vo. 3. “Urbi$
Romae delineatio & methodica ex variis authoribus descriptio,
” Vita Desiderii Eras on ex ipsius manu
fideliter representata. Additi sunt epistolarum ipsius libri
duo,
” Cosmographiae generalis libri tres.
Item geographies particularis libri quatuor, quibus Europa
in genere, speciatim Hispania, Galiia, Italia describuntur,
cum tabuiis geographicis,
”