Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655), Dutch poet and scholar. Heinsius was born a Ghent and educated at Franeker where he studied law. In 1598 he settled at Leiden where he joined the university faculty. As a classical scholar he translated editions of many Latin and Greek authors, notably Theocritus and the Ars poetica of Aristotle. Heinsius was a famous poet in his own right - writing tragedies and elegies in Latin and later two emblem books in his native Dutch. He was an important member of the Dutch Renaissance scholarship and was close to men such as Dousa and Grotius. In his later years he devoted more time to theology and worked on the Greek New Testament published by Elzeviers in 1624-33. This engraving comes from van Meurs' Illustris Academia Lugd-Batava, printed at Leiden in 1613.