Adriaan van Meerbeeck


Adrianus or Adriaan van Meerbeeck was a writer and translator from Antwerp.

Life

Meerbeeck was born in Antwerp in 1563. By 1600 he was headmaster of the Aalst grammar school, and he was still living in Aalst in 1625. He is best known for two chronicles, Chronycke van de gantsche werelt and Nederlantschen Mercurius, and also for compiling accounts of the funerals of Ferdinand II of Aragon, Emperor Charles V, Philip II of Spain, Rudolph II, Philip III of Spain and Albert VII, Archduke of Austria.
His brother, Jan van Meerbeeck, was a printer in Brussels.

Works

Histories

  • Chronycke van de gantsche werelt, ende sonderlinghe van de seventhien Nederlanden. .
  • Theatre funebre ou sont representéez les funerailles de plusieurs princes et la vie, trespas, et magnifiques obseques de Albert le Pie de treshaulte memoire archiduc d'Austrice, duc de Bourgoigne, Brabant, etc.. .
  • Tonneel der wtvaerden van Ferdinandus Coninck, Carolus Keyser, Philippus den tweeden, Rudolphus den tweeden, Phillippus den derden, midtsgaders t' leven, overlijden ende begravinghe van Albertus den godtvruchtigen ertzhertoge van Oostenrijck enz.. .
  • Nederlantschen Mercurius oft waerachtig verhael van de geschiedenissen van Nederlandt ende oock van Duytschlandt, Spaengien, Italien, Vranckrijck ende Turckijen, sedert den jare 1620 tot 1625. .
  • De verdervernisse ofte destructie van Jerusalem, drawn from the works of Josephus and Hegesippus; surviving only in a reprint from 1711. .

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