Carolus Mulerius (21 February 1601, Harlingen – 13 August 1638,

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) was a

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Hispanist and

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ian. He was the son of Christina Maria Six (1566-1645) and

Nicolaus Mulerius Nicolaus Mulerius (25 December 1564, Bruges – 5 September 1630, Groningen) was a professor of medicine and mathematics at the University of Groningen. Education and career Mulerius was born Nicolaas Des Muliers, son of Pierre Des Muliers ...

(1564-1630), who is most famous as an astronomer, but at the time was physician of the city of Harlingen. His family moved to

in 1603, to

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in 1608, and back to Groningen in 1614, where his father became Professor of Medicine and Greek at the

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. His elder brother (1599-1647) became Professor of Physics and Botany at the same university. Carolus studied at the University of Groningen (161) and

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(1618) and followed classes at several more universities in the Dutch Republic as well as abroad. He wrote ''Linguae Hispanicae Compendiosa Institutio'' (1630), Front cover of ''Linguae Hispanicae Compendiosa Institutio''
''Linguae Italicae Compendiosa Institutio'' (1631), ''Linguae Gallicae Compendiosa Institutio'' (1634), and ''Een korte ende seer dienstighe onderwijsinge Vande Spaensche Tale''. The last work, published posthumously in 1648, was the first grammar of

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written in

. He died of

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at the age of 37. The tomb stone of his grave, originally in the

Broerkerk The Broerkerk in Groningen, The Netherlands was a Medieval church connected to the Franciscan cloister in Groningen. The church was situated in the Broerstraat in Groningen. The Broerkerk was the first church in the town used by the Protestants. ...

in Groningen, at the time the church of the University of Groningen, is now kept in the cellars of the Academy Building of the University.

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1601 births 1638 deaths Dutch Hispanists Grammarians from the Netherlands Linguists of Spanish People from Harlingen, Netherlands University of Groningen alumni Dutch people of French descent {{Netherlands-linguist-stub