Elzevir may refer to:
Places
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Elzevir, Ontario, a township in Hastings County
*Elzévir is a street that runs through the
3rd arrondissement of Paris
The 3rd arrondissement of Paris (''IIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements (districts) of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is colloquially referred to as the ''"troisième"'' meaning "third" in F ...
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Elzevir Lake, lake in the Moira River and Lake Ontario drainage basins in Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
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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
Sir Walter Logie Forbes Murdoch, (17 September 187430 July 1970) was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence and wit. He was a founding professor of English studies, English and former Chancellor (education), C ...
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House of Elzevir
Elzevir is the name of a celebrated family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The duodecimo series of "Elzevirs" became very famous and very desirable among bibliophiles, who sought to obtain th ...
:, the name of a celebrated family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers of the 17th and early 18th centuries
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Abraham Elzevir (two by this name, father and son, 1592–1652), Dutch printer
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Bonaventure Elzevir
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Daniel Elzevir (published Richard Simon's work)
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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
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Lodewijk Elzevir
Lodewijk Elzevir (c. 1540, Leuven – 4 February 1617, Leiden), originally ''Lodewijk or Louis Elsevier or Elzevier'', was a printer, born in the city of Leuven (today in Belgium, then part of the Habsburg Netherlands or Spanish Netherlands). He wa ...
(c. 1540–1617), originally ''Lodewijk or Louis Elsevier or Elzevier'', was a Dutch printer
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Louis Elzevir (3 by this name, first was Lodewijk, then his son and grandson)
Characters
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Elzevir the Dollmaker from the video game ''
Blood Omen: The Legacy of Kain''
Other
*DTL Elzevir, a typeface by
Christoffel van Dijck
Christoffel van Dijck (c. 1600-5, Dexheim – November 1669, Amsterdam) was a German-born Dutch punchcutter and typefounder, who cut punches and operated a foundry for casting metal type. Van Dijck's type was widely used at a time when Amsterda ...
See also
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Elsevier (disambiguation)
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