HAVERCAMP, SIGBERT, a distinguished Dutch scholar, was born at Utrecht in 1683. He succeeded Gronovius as professor of Greek at Leyden, and held at the same time the chairs of rhetoric and history. He was undoubtedly a learned man and a laborious scholar, but his works, which were written for the most part hastily and carelessly, are now forgotten. The most important of them are his—
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