Jacobus Cruquius

While studying law, he also took courses with renowned humanists Conrad Goclenius and Petrus Nannius at the Collegium Trilingue, a college where Latin, Greek and Hebrew were taught.

He taught many notable humanists of the age, including Jacobus Raevardus, Lucas Fruterius, Victor Giselinus, Janus Lernutius and Franciscus Modius.

Jacob van Cruycke also knew the Leiden University librarinan Janus Dousa in whose Album Amicorum he was asked to contribute a page in 1576.

All four manuscripts were destroyed in 1566 in a fire at the monastery, leaving his edition as the sole surviving record of a number of commentaries not otherwise known, such as those made by the so-called "Commentator Cruquianus".

Their popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries is attested to by the fact that all rare book collections in Western Europe hold at least one copy of one of Cruucke's editions, either in an original printing or one of the expanded versions from 1597.