Anthony Thysius the Younger

Anthony Thysius the Younger
EmployerLeiden University
Pieter Steenwijck, Allegory of Death of Tromp, showing the funeral eulogy (Oratio funebris) composed by Thysius for Admiral Maarten Tromp, around 1656. Canvas 79 x 101 cm. Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden.

Antonius Thysius the Younger (Antonius Thysius filius, Antonius Thysius II, Anthony Thys, Harderwijk, around 1603 – Leiden, 25 January 1665) was a Dutch jurist, historian, librarian and rhetorician.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Antonius Thysius the Younger was born in Harderwijk as the son of Antonius Thysius the Elder, who taught theology at the Gymnasium Illustre there. Junior studied Latin, Greek and Hebrew in Leiden with Daniel Heinsius, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn and Constantinus L'Empereur van Oppijck. He then changed his subject to law and graduated as a Doctor of Law on 21 November 1634. On 9 February 1637, he became an associate professor of poetry with special rights. On 21 November 1639, he was also given lectures at the Faculty of Law and on 9 February 1651, he was appointed associate professor of rhetoric.

After becoming assistant at the Leiden University Library on 26 August 1653, he became full professor of rhetoric on 8 November 1653 and the fifth librarian of the university library in 1655 as a successor to Daniel Heinsius,[5] in which capacity he reorganised the library. In 1658 he received the honorable appointment of historian of the States of Holland and, after renouncing his special rights, became Associate Professor of Law on 12 November 1663. He was also involved in the management of Leiden University and was rector in 1658/59.

Librarian

At the end of the tenure of Heinsius as a University librarian, the library had descended into chaos. Acquisition had stopped, and its administration was neglected with many books missing, loaned by curators, professors and members of the university council who had possessed a key to the library. Curators then asked young Thysius in 1653 to draw up a new catalogue and rearrange the library.[6] The plutei - subject bookcases with lecterns, chained books and manuscripts - were removed, and bookcases placed against the library walls containing numbered volumes classified according to faculty.[7] Thysius's attempts to oblige all of the printers of the Dutch Republic to send a copy of every new book to the university library failed. However, the rule was locally in Leiden a success. Thysius also managed to purchase books from the estates of scholars like Boxhorn, Claude Saumaise - who had not always been allowed to use the library by Heinsius and had had to buy many books himself - and André Rivet (many heretical Socinian works).[8]

Work

Main works

  • Thysius, Antonius (1639). Exercitationes juridicae. Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden): Willem Christiaens van der Boxe. OCLC 959414149. 156 pages.
  • Thysius, Antonius (1645). Compendium historiae Batavicae a Iulio Caesare usque ad haec tempora [A compendium of Dutch history from Julius Caesar to the present time]. Leiden (Lugdunum Batavorum): Ioannis Maire (Joannes le Maire).
  • Thysius, Antonius. Historia Navalis, sive celeberrimorum proeliorum, quae mari, ab antiquissimis temporibus usque ad Pacem Hispanicam Batavi, foederatique Belgae, ut plurimum victores, gesserúnt, luculenta descriptio. Leiden (Lugdunum Batavorum): Ioannis Maire (Joannes le Maire). OCLC 64965772. Retrieved 8 May 2025. 305 pages.
  • Thysius, Antonius. Discursus politicus de republica Atheniensium, de Collatio legum Atheniensium et Romanorum legum (in Latin). in Postel, Guilielmus (1645). De republica, seu Magistratibus Atheniensium liber. Ex Musæo Joan. Balesdens, In Principe Senatu Advocati (in Latin). Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden): Joannes Maire.
  • Thysius, Antonius (1646). Antonii Thysii ... Memorabilia celebriorum veterum rerumpublicarum : accessit Tractatus juris publici de potestate principis. Lugdunum Batavorum [Leiden]: Ioannis Maire (Joannes le Maire). OCLC 64328700. 704 pages.

Other works

References

  1. ^ Zedler 1731-1754
  2. ^ Van der Aa 1974
  3. ^ Hulshoff Pol 1975.
  4. ^ Berkvens-Stevelinck 2012, pp.83, 87.
  5. ^ Hulshoff Pol 1975, p. 432.
  6. ^ Berkvens-Stevelinck 2012, p. 85.
  7. ^ Hulshoff Pol 1975, p. 432.
  8. ^ Berkvens-Stevelinck 2012, p. 87.

Literature

  • Berkvens-Stevelinck, Christiane (2012). Magna commoditas : Leiden University's great asset : 425 years library collections and services. Translated by UvA Talen, Amsterdam. Leiden: Leiden University Press. pp. 83–87, 106. ISBN 9789087281656. OCLC 794706996.
  • Hulshoff Pol, Elfriede (1975). "The Library". In Lunsingh Scheurleer, Th. H.; Posthumus Meyjes, G.H.M.; Bachrach, Alfred Gustave Herbert (eds.). Leiden University in the seventeenth century : an exchange of learning. Leiden: Brill. pp. 430–433, 436, 440, 458. ISBN 9789004042674. OCLC 1676723. 496 pages.
  • "Entry". Zedlers Universallexikon. Vol. 43. p. 1043. Title: Thysius, Anton, Rechtsgelehrter und Historicus. In German. Consulted on 29 May 2025.
  • Blok, P.J.; Molhuysen, P.C., eds. (1921). "[Thys, Thysius Anthony]". Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 5 (1921) (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 May 2025.
  • van der Aa, Abraham Jacob (1874). "Thysius, Antonius.". Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Vol. 18. Haarlem: J. J. van Brederode. p. 116. (Online, in Dutch)
  • K.A.E. Enenkel, ‘Anthonius Thysius’ in: Jan Bloemendal en Chris Heesakkers, eds., Bio-bibliografie van Nederlandse Humanisten. Digitale uitgave DWC/Huygens Instituut KNAW (Den Haag 2009). www.dwc.huygensinstituut.nl.[1]
  1. ^ Enenkel, K.A.E. (30 March 2010). "Thysius, Antonius (1613?-1665)". dwc.knaw.nl (in Dutch). Den Haag: Digitaal Wetenschappelijk Centrum DWC/Huygens Instituut KNAW. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
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