Hemsterhuys
Tiberius, often spoken of under the Latinized form Hemsterhusius. A Dutch classical scholar born at Groningen, January 9th, 1685. He was educated at the Universities of Groningen and Leyden, entering the former at the age of fifteen, and being appointed Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy in Amsterdam at the age of nineteen. In 1706 he brought out an edition of the Onomasticon of Pollux which had been begun by Lederlin, but was so mortified by the criticism made upon it by Richard Bentley (q.v.) as to refuse to open a Greek book for months. In 1717 he was called to the chair of Greek at the University of Franeker, and from 1738 discharged the duties of a professor of history, being transferred to Leyden in 1740. He died April 7th, 1766.His chief works are editions of the Colloquia and Timon of Lucian (1708); of the Plutus of Aristophanes (1744); annotations on Xenophon of Ephesus (last ed. 1784); ed. Pollux (1706); a Latin trans. of the Birds of Aristophanes in Kuster's edition; besides notes contributed to Ernesti's Callimachus and to Burmann's Propertius. See the Eulogium of Ruhnken (1789), the Supplementa Annotationis ad Eulogium (Leyden, 1874), and L. Müller, Geschichte d. class. Philologie in den Nieder landen, pp. 74-82 (Leipzig, 1869).