Adrianus or Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1560–1643) was an educator, writer and translator active in the Spanish Netherlands.
Life Meerbeeck was baptised in Antwerp on 20 May 1560.Renaud Adam, "Jan van Meerbeeck and the Book Business in Brussels in the First Third of the Seventeenth Century", in The Book World of Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Andrew Pettegree, edited by Arthur der Weduwen and Malcolm Walsby, vol. 2 (Leiden, 2022), pp. 100-127. By 1600 he was headmaster of the Latin school in Aalst, where he was still living in 1625. He later moved to Brussels, where he was associated with the printer Jan van Meerbeeck, presumably a relative. His date of death is unknown, but he was buried in Brussels on 23 April 1643.
He is best known for two chronicles, (1620) and Nederlantschen Mercurius (1625), and for compiling accounts of the funerals of Ferdinand II of Aragon, Emperor Charles V, Philip II of Spain, Rudolph II, Philip III of Spain and Albert VII, Archduke of Austria.
Works Histories (Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1620).Chronycke on Google Books (Brussels, Ferdinand de Hoeymaker, 1622).Theatre funebre on Google Books (Brussels, Ferdinand de Hoeymaker, 1622).Tonneel der wtvaerden on Google Books (Brussels, Jan van Meerbeeck, 1625).Nederlantschen Mercurius on Google Books , drawn from the works of Josephus and Hegesippus; surviving only in a reprint from 1711.Destructie van Jerusalem on Google Books
Translations Nicolas de Montmorency, (Antwerp, Caesar Joachim Trognaesius, 1617). Reprinted Leuven, 1690. Johannes Cotovicus, (Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1620).
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