Background
January Gruter was born in Antwerp. His father was Wouter Gruter, who was a merchant and city administrator of Antwerp, and his mother was Catharina Tishem from Norwich in England.
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Education
Foreign some years he studied at Caius College, Cambridge, after which he went to Leiden.
Career
In 1584 he obtained the degree of doctor iris. He then left the Netherlands and commenced a period of travel that brought him to France, Switzerland, Italy and finally to North and East Germany. His neo-Latin poems are published in Heidelberg at this time.
In 1590, Gruter was appointed professor of history at the University of Wittenberg.
As a Calvinist, he refused to subscribe to the formula concordiae, the authoritative Lutheran statement of faith, and lost his position as a result in 1592. From 1589 to 1592, he taught at Rostock, after which he went to Heidelberg, where in 1602 he was appointed librarian to the university.
He died at Bierhelderhof, Heidelberg.
