1657

Theodorus Jansonius Almeloveen, ab

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First name
Theodorus Jansonius
Last name
Almeloveen, ab
Date of Birth
1657
Date of Death
1712
Born in
Mijdrecht
Died in
Amsterdam

Theodorus Jansonius ab Almeloveen was Dutch physician and polyhistor. He studied (1676) theology in Utrecht and medicine in Leiden, and became professor of Greek, history, rhetoric and medicine (1701) in at Harderwijk University. Almeloveen earned a reputation for his works on philology and bibliography, for exampe with Bibliotheca promissa et latens (1692). See: NNBW, vol. 6, cols 31–2; De Graaf, 1989.