Cornelis Schrevel

Cornelis Schrevel (bapt. 13 April 1608, Haarlem - 1664, Leiden) was a Dutch physician and scholar. He studied medicine at Leiden University and replaced his father Theodorus Schrevelius as head of the college faculty at Leiden in 1642; published a Latin-Greek lexicon; and edited many classical authors, including an edition of Curtius Rufus owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Cornelis Schrevel.

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

References

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

External links

• (Dutch) http://www.richardwolf.de/latein/schrevel.htm

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Name	Schrevel, Cornelis
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Date of birth	13 April 1608
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Date of death	1664
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