Theodorus Schrevelius

He was friends with the Mannerist artist group led by Karel van Mander, who himself translated Ovid's Metamorphoses in 1604.

[1] In 1609, he succeeded Cornelis Schonaeus as director of the Haarlem Latin School, but in 1620 he was dismissed for his Remonstrant ideas.

[citation needed] He is best known today for his Harlemias, or history of Haarlem, which was first published 20 years after his colleague Samuel Ampzing published his poetic history of Haarlem in verse form called Beschrijvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland.

In this book, Schrevelius includes biographical sketches of many local artists that Arnold Houbraken later used for his Schouburg.

[2][3] In his Harlemias, Schrevelius claimed that the art of printing, itself the keeper of all science, was invented in Haarlem in 1440 by Laurens Janszoon Coster.