Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Voss, Gerhard Johann
VOSS, GERHARD JOHANN (fōs),
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
Historians” (1627); “Aristarchus; or, On
the Art of Grammar” (1635); “Of
Errors of Speech and Latino-Barbarous
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
published in 1691. He died in Amsterdam,
March 19, 1649.