Family
His son Isaac (1618–1689), after a career of scholarship in Sweden, became residentiary canon at Windsor in 1673. He was the author of De septuaginta interpretibus (1661), De poematum cantu et viribus rhythmi (1673), and Variarum observationum liber (1685).
Others:
- His son Vossius Dionysus died 1633 or 1640. He made notes on the work of Moses Maimonides.
- His third son Gerrit Vossius died 1640. He was an editor of Paterculus (1639).
- His son Matthew died 1646. He made a chronicle of Holland.
- Francis Vossius was Gerardus Vossius's brother.
A person also called Gerardus Vossius, a Roman Catholic born 1609, was not a son of Gerhardus Vossius. He made Latin versions and notes of Thaumaturgus, and Cicero. He died in Liège.
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