Cornelius, a Dutch traveller and clever artist, author of Travels in the East, was born at the Hague in 1652. His Voyage au Levant was published at Paris in 1714; and his Voyages en Muscovie, Perse, et Les Indes Orientes appeared at Amsterdam in 1718. Both are illustrated with upwards of 500 engravings after his own drawings. These works, as well as his Observations on the Engravings published by former travellers on Persepolis, are curious and instructive, and the fidelity of his descriptions are confirmed by later travellers. He died at Utrecht in 1719.