the Latinized form of Gronov, JOHANN FRANZISCH, a learned scholar and critic, was born at Hamburg on the 10th of September 1611. He went through his early studies with great distinction at Bremen, after which he studied law at Altdorf under the learned professors who had conferred celebrity on that school. To extend his knowledge by travel, and to converse with the learned and explore the libraries, he visited the principal cities of Holland, England, and France. In 1658 he succeeded Daniel Heinsius, the celebrated professor of belles-lettres in the university of Leyden; and in that city he died on the 28th of December 1671. Gronovivus was a man of equal learning and modesty; and, as he was naturally disinclined to controversy, he avoided those literary disputes by which so many then sought to obtain distinction. For a correct list of his numerous works, we refer to the Biblioth. Erudit. Praecox of Klefeker, and to the Dictionnaire of Chauffepié, and shall only mention the following:—

*Historiae de Statu et potestate Sylium*, Hague, 1637, in 8vo; *De Secteris sine subiectis*, *Praecepta veteris Graecae et Romanae literae*, Deventer, 1643, in 4to; *Observationum libri iv*, Deventer, 1662, in 12mo; *Laudatio familiae Joannis Goldi*, Leyden, 1668, in 8vo; *De Musico Alexandrino*, Exercitatio Academica, Leiden, 1670, in 8vo; *Vocabularium Antiquitatum Graecarum*, *Lectiones Platonicae*, quibus non tantum fabulae Platonicae et Porcelliana, quam etiam Ciceron, Cicero, Livius illustrantur*, Amsterdam, 1740, in 8vo; *Notes on the Treatise of Gratius De Jure Belli et Pacis*. Gronovivus also revised the text, and published editions with notes, of Titus Livius, Statius, Pliny the Elder, Justin, Tacitus, the Senecas, Aulus Gellius, Phaedrus, and Paulinus, almost all of which form part of the Variorum collection.

Jacobus, son of the preceding, and one of the most laborious philologers of the seventeenth century, was born at Deventer (Holland) on the 20th of October 1645. At an early age he had read all the masterpieces of antiquity. In the course of his travels he visited England, where he occupied himself several months in collating the manuscripts in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge. He then returned to Leyden, and there published, in the year 1670, an edition of Polybius, with notes, amongst which he inserted those that Cassaubon had on his deathbed bequeathed to him. This first editorial effort did him much honour, and well merited the offer, which was in consequence made him, of a chair in the academy of Deventer. But entertaining the intention of continuing his travels, he declined the proffered situation, and almost immediately set out for Paris, where he met with a most distinguished reception. The death of his father obliged him to return a second time to Leyden; but as soon as he had arranged his affairs, he again set out along with M. Paats, ambassador of the States-general, to Spain; and having travelled through that country, he embarked for Italy. The Grand Duke of Tuscany retained him in his states by appointing him professor in the university of Pisa; and Gronovivus profited by the facility he had of visiting Florence, to form a connection with Magliabecchi, who placed at his disposal all the treasures of the Medicean library. At the end of two years he prevailed on the grand duke to accept his resignation; visited Venice and Padua; and traversed Germany on his way to Deventer, where it was his intention to settle. But scarcely had he arrived in that city when the curators of the university of Leyden tendered him a chair, and pressed their offer so urgently that he was induced to accept it; and he taught at Leyden till his death in 1716. If he inherited the erudition of his father, he had neither his gentleness nor his moderation. Never was there a man fonder of disputation, or more unjust towards the adversaries whom, for the most part, he raised up against himself by his asperity and haughtiness. It would be tedious, if not disgusting, to enter into details respecting the quarrels he had to maintain with Fabretti on the sense of some passages in Livy; with Feller and Perizonius as to the manner of Judas's death; with Vossius on Pomponius Mela; with Bentley and John Leclerc on the corrections of Merianander; with Kuster on Suidas, &c. The scurrility he indulged in these discussions, which did not always terminate to his advantage, and his exorbitant vanity, caused him to be compared to Scipio, and procured for him the unenviable distinction of a place in the work of Mencken on the Empiricism of the Learned. In the Memoirs of Nicéron will be found a notice of his GROSE, life followed by a catalogue of his works, forty-six in number.

The most celebrated, as well as the most important of these, is the *Thesaurus Antiquitatum Graecorum*, Leyden, 1697 and the following years, in 13 vols. folio. For this invaluable collection he adopted the plan traced out by Gravius in the *Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanorum*, Utrecht, 1694, in 12 vols. folio. Grose published new editions of several authors commented on by his father, such as Seneca, Aulus Gellius, Phaedrus, and others; and he also edited Macrobius, Polybius, Tacitus, Pomponius Mela, Cicero, Ammianus Marcellinus, Quintus Curtius, Suetonius, Arrian, Minutius Felix, Herodotus, Ctesias, and some ancient geographers; the poem of Manetho on the stars; the *Dactylologiae* of Gorlius; the *Lexicon of Harpocrates*, &c., the greater part of which, enriched with correction and notes, form part of the Variorum collection, though, in general, not held in such estimation. The other productions of Grose consist of *Tracts*, *Discourses*, and *Dialogues*, of which a list will be found in the *Memorials of Nicolson*, and also in the Bibliothèque Racinienne of Klefeker.