Education
He studied in Leiden for several months, but in 1585 he continued his studies in France, where he made contacts with other learned men who were interested by Roman ruins, inscriptions and writings.
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Arnoldus Buchel
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Career
Buchel was the illegitimate child of a Canon of the Saint Peter"s Church in Utrecht. He travelled to Rome, where he wrote down numerous interesting facts and information about buildings, inscriptions and art In 1588 he returned to Utrecht.
The only remaining drawings and description of the lost Saint Salvator"s Church in Utrecht were made by van Buchel.
He put together a number of manuscripts that, together, form a treasure of immeasurable worth for research into lost buildings and inventories. Buchel hardly published anything during his life.
His book about the bishops of Utrecht, published posthumously, is still seen as a standard work on the subject. During his life he was a respected scholar, and with Petrus Scriverius one of the first antiquaries of the Netherlands.
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July 15, 1641 (aged 76) -
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Netherlands