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Elzevir

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Elzevir may refer to:

Places

  • Elzevir, Ontario, in the township of Hastings County
  • Elzévir is a street that runs through the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. (See: 1, 2)
  • Elzevir Lake, lake in the Moira River and Lake Ontario drainage basins in Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
  • Elzevir Creek, creek in the Moira River and Lake Ontario drainage basins in Tweed, Hastings County in Central Ontario, Canada

People

  • A pen name of Walter Murdoch
  • The House of Elzevir:, the name of a celebrated family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers of the 17th and early 18th centuries
    • Abraham Elzevir (two by this name, father and son, 1592–1652), Dutch printer
    • Bonaventure Elzevir
    • Daniel Elzevir (published Richard Simon's work)
    • Isaac Elzevir (1596–1651), Dutch publisher and printer who began printing with one of the earliest printing press in the city of Leyden in the year 1617
    • Lodewijk Elzevir (c. 1540–1617), originally Lodewijk or Louis Elsevier or Elzevier, was a Dutch printer
    • Louis Elzevir (3 by this name, first was Lodewijk, then his son and grandson)

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Other

See also

  • Elsevier (disambiguation)
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