Cornelius or Cornelis Tollius (c. 1628 - 13 June 1654) was a Dutch scholar.
Life
Tollius was born in
Rhenen
Rhenen () is a municipality and a city in the central Netherlands.
The municipality also includes the villages of Achterberg, Remmerden, Elst and Laareind. The town lies at a geographically interesting location, namely on the southernmost par ...
, the son of Johannes Tollius and his first wife Maria Gordon. He probably studied in Utrecht and certainly in Amsterdam under the friendly guidance of
Gerhard Johann Vossius
Gerrit Janszoon Vos (March or April 1577, Heidelberg – 19 March 1649, Amsterdam), often known by his Latin name Gerardus Vossius, was a Dutch classical scholar and theologian.
Life
He was the son of Johannes (Jan) Vos, a Protestant from the Ne ...
. With Gerhard's son
Isaac Vossius
Isaak Vossius, sometimes anglicised Isaac Voss (1618 in Leiden – 21 February 1689 in Windsor, Berkshire) was a Dutch scholar and manuscript collector.
Life
He was the son of the humanist Gerhard Johann Vossius. Isaak formed what was accou ...
, who in 1648 became court librarian in
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Located north of the c ...
, he went to Sweden as an amanuensis. His companion later accused him of having stolen some of his books. On 12 April 1648 Tollius was appointed professor of history and Greek at the
University of Harderwijk
The University of Harderwijk (1648–1811), also named the ''Guelders Academy'' ( la, Academia Gelro-Zutphanica), was located in the city Harderwijk, in the Republic of the United Provinces (now: the Netherlands). It was founded by the province ...
, where he was also secretary of the College of Curators. In January 1654 he succeeded
Georgius Hornius as professor of history, political science, and geography. Tollius died unexpectedly in Gouda, shortly after his marriage on 5 March to Margaretha van Kent, the daughter of the mayor of Gouda. He died in
Gouda, still a young man, while his contemporaries had high expectations of him.
Works
Tollius' publications include:
*''Cornelii Tollii Ad
Pierii Valeriani De literatorum infelicitate librum appendix'' (Amsterdam 1647
online(Harderwijk 1655 an
Leipzig 1707 with
Pietro Alcionio, ''Medices legatus sive de exilio Oratio de natura et constitutione verae Politices'')
*''
Palæphati De Incredibilibvs'', Greek text with Latin translation (Amsterdam 1649
online(translation reprinted by Martin Brunner, Uppsala 1663; by
Thomas Gale
Thomas Gale (1635/1636?7 or 8 April 1702) was an English classical scholar, antiquarian and cleric.
Life
Gale was born at Scruton, Yorkshire. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow ...
, ''Opuscula Mythologica Ethica et Physica'', Cambridge 1671, repr. Amsterdam 1688; and by Paulus Pater, Frankfurt 1685
1686 1687)
* ''
Ioannis Cinnami De rebus gestis imperat. Constantinop. Joannis et Manuelis, Commenorum, historiar. libri IV'',
editio princeps with Latin translation (Utrecht 1652
online
A number of Tollius' orations were also published:
*''Cornelii Tollii Adlocutio ad nobilissimum & magnificum dominum, Ioannem Wynbergium, supremae
Gelriae curiae senatorem, ejusdem ducatus &
comitatis Zutphaniae academiae curatorem, Hardervici consulem, sponsum: cum domum duceret nobilissimam, lectissimamque virginem, Gertrudim à Dedem, sponsam'' (Harderwijk 1647; to Johan van Wijnbergen, the mayor of Harderwijk)
*''Oratio de
pace inter
Hispaniae regem Philippum et
liberos ordines Belgii ipso publicationis die Harderovici habita'' (Amsterdam 1648)
*''Cornelii Tollii Oratio in obitum incomparabilis, & illustris viri Gerardi Ioannis Vossii ... in
inclito Amstelodamensium gymnasio professoris celeberrimi : habita .... XII aprilis MDCXLIX'' (Amsterdam 1649)
*''Oratio in obitum
Joh. Andr. Schmitzii in Acad. Harderov. Medic. Prof.'' (Harderwijk 1652)
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1620s births
1654 deaths
Dutch classical scholars
People from Rhenen
Academic staff of the University of Harderwijk