Gaspar Gevartius

Gaspar was born in Turnhout on 6 August 1593,[1] the son of Johannes Gevaerts (1553–1613) and Cornelia Aerssens, whose father had been mayor of Bergen op Zoom.

He was briefly in the service of Benjamin Aubery du Maurier, French Ambassador in The Hague, where he became friends with Daniel Heinsius, writing an epithalamium on his marriage.

[4] Pierre Gassendi's biography of Nicolas Peiresc mentions that in 1620 he consulted Gevartius, "a famous and (if ever any) a true Schollar", about the Duke of Aarschot's cabinet of curiosities.

[12] He worked together with Rubens and Theodoor van Thulden on the Pompa introitus honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi Austriaci Hispaniarum Infantis ...[13].

[14] A biography of Gevartius by Marcel Hoc was published under the title Le déclin de l'humanisme belge: étude sur Jean-Gaspard Gevaerts, philologue et poète (1593–1666) (Brussels, Paris and London, 1922).