Adriaan van Baarland or Adrianus Barlandus or Hadrianus Barlandus (1486–1538) was a Dutch historian. He was born in the village of

Baarland Baarland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 21 km east of Middelburg. History The village was first mentioned in 1295 as Bae(r)land, and means "barren land". Baarland ...

, from which he took his name. He studied at

Ghent Ghent ( ; ; historically known as ''Gaunt'' in English) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the Provinces of Belgium, province ...

and

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, at which latter place he was elected professor of eloquence at the

Collegium Trilingue The Collegium Trilingue, often also called Collegium trium linguarum, or, after its creator Collegium Buslidianum (, ), is a university that was founded in 1517 under the patronage of the humanist, Hieronymus van Busleyden. The three languages tau ...

in 1526, after a stay of some years in

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. He died in Leuven in 1538, and was succeeded at the Collegium Trilingue by

Conrad Goclenius Conrad Goclenius (or in German "Conrad Wackers" or "Conrad Gockelen") was a Renaissance humanist, and Latin scholar, and the closest confidant of humanist Desiderius Erasmus, who was born in Mengeringhausen in the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1490, ...

. Besides some philological works of no great value, Van Baarland wrote a number of historical works, especially about the various provinces in the

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Works

Rhetorice isagoge

Vita honesta, sive virtvtisDie cronijcke van Brabant int corte

References

1486 births 1538 deaths 16th-century writers in Latin Historians from the Habsburg Netherlands People from Borsele {{Netherlands-historian-stub