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Petrus van Limburg Brouwer (1795–1847)
Limburg Brouwer, Petrus van (lēm’börg-brou’er). A Dutch scholar; born at Dordrecht, Sept. 30, 1795; died at Gröningen, June 21, 1847. He wrote ‘History of the Moral and Religious Civilization of the Greeks’ (3 vols., 1833–42), still highly valued; two historical novels with the scene laid in ancient Greece,—‘Charicles and Euphorion’ (1831), and ‘Diophanes’ (1838); and a novel relating to his own time, ‘The Reading Society’ (1847).