Brabant philologer, specialized in Greek and Hebrew grammar and one of the first in the Netherlands to study the Arabic language. Diest, 5 December 1493 or 1494 - Granada (Spain), September 1542. Licentiate in theology at the University of Louvain in 1519, he started teaching Greek and Hebrew at his Alma Mater in the following year. He followed Ferdinand Colomb to Spain in 1531, but instead of continuing to Sevilla to help the son of Christopher Colomb with his projected library, he remained at Salamanca (1531-1533), moving later to Evora in Portugal, and making a trip to and through Morocco in 1540-1542. Cf. Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], 4, 1873, Columns 163-172; V. Chauvin and A. Roersch, Etude sur la vie et les travaux de Nicolas Clénard, 1900; H. de Vocht, History of the Foundation and the Rise of the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, 1517-1550, II, 1953, pages 220-224, 475, 507-508, 580, III, 1954, pages 164-170, 174-175, 185-190, 253, 401, 472, IV, 1955, pages 248, 369; R. Hoven, 'Les éditions d'oeuvres de Nicolas Clénard: étude bibliographique pour la Bibliotheca Belgica' in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis. Proceedings of the First International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Louvain 23-28 August 1971, Louvain, 1973, pages 305-310. Other bibliographical references in A. Gerlo-H.D.L. Vervliet, Bibliographie de l'humanisme des anciens Pays-Bas, 1972, page 273. Mr. R. Hoven was so kind to give us precious information on the location of a number of copies.
II. Institutiones in Graecam linguam.
III. Meditationes Graecanicae in artem grammaticam.
- cp010274: Meditationes Graecanicae in artem grammaticam, 1564.
- cp013364: Meditationes Graecanicae in artem grammaticam, 1566.
- cp013030: Meditationes Graecanicae in artem grammaticam, 1572.
- cp011306: Meditationes Graecanicae in artem grammaticam, 1576.
- cp010850: Meditationes Graecanicae in artem grammaticam, 1581.