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Voss (GERHARD JOHANN fos usually)

GERHARD JOHANN (fos), usually styled Vossius, a Dutch philologist; born near Heidelberg, in 1577. In certain departments of archæophilology he made valuable original researches; and he was the first to indicate the historical evolution of the Latin language. Among his writings are: "Essays on Rhetoric; or, The Institutes of Oratory," his greatest work (1606) "The Greek Historians" (1624); "The Latin Hisrors of Speech and Latino-Barbarous the Art of Grammar" (1635); "Of Er- (1642) ; "The Times of the Ancient Terms" (1640); "Heathen Theology" (1642); "The Times of the Ancient Poets" (1654); "Etymology of the Latin Language" (1662).

The "Correspondence of Vossius with Eminent Men" was dam, March 19, 1649.