Adriaan van Meerbeeck


Adrianus or Adriaan van Meerbeeck was a writer and translator from Antwerp.

Life

Meerbeeck was born in Antwerp in 1563. By 1600 he was headmaster of the Aalst grammar school, and he was still living in Aalst in 1625. He is best known for two chronicles, Chronycke van de gantsche werelt and Nederlantschen Mercurius, and also for compiling accounts of the funerals of Ferdinand II of Aragon, Emperor Charles V, Philip II of Spain, Rudolph II, Philip III of Spain and Albert VII, Archduke of Austria.
His brother, Jan van Meerbeeck, was a printer in Brussels.

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