Olivier de Wree

Olivier de Wree (1596–1652), pen name Latinized as Olivarius Vredius, was a Neo-Latin poet and historian from the Habsburg Netherlands.

Born in Bruges on 28 September 1596, De Wree was educated at Jesuit schools there and at Douai.

At the expiry of the Twelve Years' Truce in 1621 he was instrumental in putting the city into a state of preparedness to prevent Dutch incursions into the County of Flanders.

[1] He induced the printer Jan Baptist van den Kerchove to relocate from Ghent to Bruges.

[2] Kerchove, whose father Jan had printed De Wree's early poems, was granted the freedom of the city and registered with the guild of booksellers in 1639.