Philip Cluwer

Philip Cluwer ( Clüver , Cluvier or Cluverius ), born in 1580 with Gdańsk in Poland and deceased in 1623 with Leyde with the Netherlands, was a geographer and German historian .

It had almost all the languages of the Europe. He travelled in England, in France, Germany, Italy. He taught with distinction with Leyde, and died there in 1623.

Its most important works are:

Germania antiqua , Leyde, 1616, 1 folio volume;
Siciliae Antiquae libri duo' , 1619;
Sardinia and Corsica Antiqua , 1619;
Italia antiqua , 1624, 2 folio volumes (posthumous);
Introductio in Universam Geographiam , 1629, in-12, translated into French by Philippe Labbe, 1697, with the notes of Johann Reiske.

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