CLUVIER, PHILIP (1580-1623), a celebrated geographer, was born at Dantzic, and was educated for the bar. During a visit to Leyden he was induced by Joseph Scaliger to devote himself to the study of geography; and
for this purpose he visited the majority of the European states. He gained considerable reputation as a linguist, and taught at Leyden for several years with great applause. He wrote, 1. De tribus Rheni alveis atque ostiis, et de quinque populis quondam accolis, inserted in the Recueil des Antiquités de la Germanie Inférieure, Leyden, 1611, 4to; 2. Germania Antiqua libri tres, necnon Vindelicia et Noricum, Leyden, 1616, 2 vols. fol.; 3. Sicilie Antiqua libri duo, Sardinia ac Corsica Antiqua, Leyden, 1619, fol.; 4. Italia Antiqua, Leyden, 1624, two vols. in one, fol.; 5. Introductionis in Universam Geographiam tam veterem quam novam, libri sex, Leyden, 1629, 12mo. The best edition of this last work is that of Amsterdam, 1729, in quarto, with notes by Bunon, Hekel, and De la Martinière.