BOXHORNUS, MARC ZUERUS, a learned critic, born at Bergen-op-Zoom in 1612, was professor of eloquence at Leyden, and at length of politics and history in the room of Heinsius. He published, 1. Theatrum urbium Hollandiae, Amsterdam, 1632; 2. Scriptores historiae Augustae, cum notis, Leyden, 1632; 3. Poetae satyrici minores, cum commentis, 1632; 4. Notes on Justin, Tacitus; and a great number of other works. He died in 1658, aged forty-one.