He was born at Hamburg. Having studied at several universities, he travelled in England, France and Italy. In 1643 he was appointed professor of rhetoric and history at Deventer, and in 1658 to the Greek chair at Leiden, where he remained until his death. (See also Raphael Fabretti)
Besides editing, with notes, Statius, Plautus, Livy, Tacitus, Aulus Gellius and Seneca's tragedies, Gronovius was the author, amongst numerous other works, of Commentarius de sestertiis (1643) and of an edition of Hugo Grotius' De jure belli et pacis (1660). His Observationes contain a number of brilliant emendations. His son, Jakob Gronovius, was also a classical scholar.
See JE Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. ii. (1908); FA Eckstein in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopädie.
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