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Caspar Barlaeus

1584 - 1648

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Caspar Barlaeus (February 12, 1584 – January 14, 1648) was a Dutch polymath and Renaissance humanist, a theologian, poet, and historian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caspar Barlaeus has received more than 39,987 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Caspar Barlaeus is the 3,200th most popular writer (up from 3,371st in 2019), the 447th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 429th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Belgian Writer.

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Notable Works

The Wise Merchant
General & world history
On 9 January 1632, at the inauguration of the Amsterdam Illustrious School - the predecessor of the city's university - Caspar Barlaeus delivered a speech that has continued to arouse the curiosity of researchers and the general public alike: Mercator sapiens. This famous oration on the wise merchant is now considered a key text of the Dutch Golden Age. At the same time it is surrounded by misunderstandings regarding Barlaeus himself, the nascent Illustrious School, and Amsterdam's merchant culture. This volume presents the first English translation and the first critical edition of the Mercator sapiens, preceded by an introduction providing historical context and a fresh interpretation of this intriguing text.Anna-Luna Post and Corinna Vermeulen shed new light on the roles of humanist scholarship and rhetoric in Holland's metropolis. Caspar Barlaeus's 1632 oration, The Wise Merchant, has often been cited but seldom read. Their edition, translation and introduction set the work into its historical context with learning, clarity and economy. - Anthony Grafton

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Among writers, Caspar Barlaeus ranks 3,200 out of 7,302. Before him are C. S. Forester, Anne Tyler, José Giovanni, Jiří Dienstbier, Mihály Babits, and Ruben Sevak. After him are Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Jim Carroll, Maria Wirtemberska, Peter Benchley, and Imre Madách.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1584, Caspar Barlaeus ranks 15. Before him are Mehmed III Giray, Cornelis de Vos, Gaspar de Crayer, Hu Zhengyan, Melchior Grodziecki, and Herman Wrangel. After him are Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Francis Beaumont, Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and John Selden. Among people deceased in 1648, Caspar Barlaeus ranks 13. Before him are George I Rákóczi, Claudia de' Medici, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Qin Liangyu, Vincent Voiture, and Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau. After him are Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Frederick IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Juan Gómez de Mora.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Caspar Barlaeus ranks 447 out of 1,190. Before him are Jan Gruter (1560), Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626), Georges Heylens (1941), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Perkin Warbeck (1474), and Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria (1938). After him are Gaston Eyskens (1905), Adriaen Isenbrandt (1490), René Vandereycken (1953), Katherine Swynford (1350), Maurice Peeters (1882), and Corneille Guillaume Beverloo (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Caspar Barlaeus ranks 26. Before him are J.-H. Rosny aîné (1856), Amélie Nothomb (1967), Jean Ray (1887), Daniël Heinsius (1580), Heinrich von Veldeke (1150), and Jan Gruter (1560). After him are Felix Timmermans (1886), Simon Leys (1935), Georges Eekhoud (1854), Camille Lemonnier (1844), Louis Paul Boon (1912), and Félicien Marceau (1913).

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