Cornelis Schrevel (bapt. 13 April 1608 – 1664) was a Dutch physician and scholar. Schrevel was born in

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. He studied medicine at

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and replaced his father Theodorus Schrevelius as head of the college faculty at Leiden in 1642. He published a Latin-Greek lexicon and edited many classical authors, including an edition of Curtius Rufus owned by

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (, 1743July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the United States Declaration of Indepe ...

. Among his other editions, Six authors of the Historia Augusta, Leyden 1661. He died in

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. The ''Lexicon'' ran to scores of editions in half-a-dozen languages, to the early nineteenth century; an expansion of 1663 was edited by Joseph Hill.

References

*Sowerby, E.M. ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 1952, v. 1, p. 13
Schrevelius family genealogy

External links

Cornelii Schrevelii Lexicon Manuale Græco-Latinum Et Latino-Græcum
1608 births 1664 deaths Scholars from the Dutch Republic Dutch classical scholars People from Haarlem Leiden University alumni Classical scholars of Leiden University {{Classical-scholar-stub