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Caspar Barlaeus

1584 - 1648

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Caspar Barlaeus is the 3,385th most popular writer (down from 3,200th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 448th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Belgian Writer.

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Among writers, Caspar Barlaeus ranks 3,385 out of 7,302. Before him are Kan Kikuchi, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Yury Olesha, Alexander Sumarokov, Yury Vlasov, and Jens Baggesen. After him are Mario Soldati, Akazome Emon, Susanna Tamaro, Apion, Phan Bội Châu, and Augusto Genina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1584, Caspar Barlaeus ranks 16. Before him are Cornelis de Vos, Gaspar de Crayer, Mehmed III Giray, Melchior Grodziecki, Herman Wrangel, and Francis Beaumont. After him are Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Hu Zhengyan, Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg, John Selden, Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Thomas van Erpe. Among people deceased in 1648, Caspar Barlaeus ranks 14. Before him are Claudia de' Medici, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Qin Liangyu, Vincent Voiture, and Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury. After him are 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 485 out of 1,190. Before him are Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662), Annie Cordy (1928), Frans Janssens (1945), Marcel Kint (1914), Mark Eyskens (1933), and Charles de Tornaco (1927). After him are Émile Grumiaux (1861), Georges Vantongerloo (1886), Adam van Noort (1562), André Cluytens (1905), Ferdinand de Marsin (1656), and Peter Jan Beckx (1795).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Caspar Barlaeus ranks 24. Before him are William of Moerbeke (1215), Jean Bolland (1596), Michel de Ghelderode (1898), Amélie Nothomb (1967), Heinrich von Veldeke (1150), and Jean Ray (1887). After him are Daniël Heinsius (1580), Felix Timmermans (1886), Jan Gruter (1560), Princess Delphine of Belgium (1968), Camille Lemonnier (1844), and Félicien Marceau (1913).

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