Jacobus or Jakob Tollius (1633, in

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– 1696, in

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) was a

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. Tollius was the younger half-brother of Alexander and Cornelis Tollius, who were professors at the

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. In

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he studied letters and medicine, obtaining a doctoral degree in the latter. After serving as a secretary to Nicolaas Heinsius he became head of the

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in Gouda. He was removed from this position after controversy over his liberal views. Eventually he became professor in

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, where he resigned after converting to the catholic faith. Tollius started wandering abroad, mostly in

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, and died in utter misery in Utrecht. Tollius was a renowned scholar of classical languages and antiquities. He published and commented such authors as Lucanus and Pseudo-Longinus.

Works

Epistolae Itineraries
Amsterdam, 1700

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tollius, Jacobus 1633 births 1696 deaths People from Rhenen Dutch classical scholars University of Harderwijk alumni