A correspondent, "W.," in No. 12. p. 185., wishes to learn "the real
surname of Theodoric Mertens, Martins, or Martini, the printer of
Louvain."
In Latin the name is written Theodoricus Martinus; in French, Thierri
Martin; in Flemish, Diedrych Meertens, and occasionally, but I think
incorrectly, Dierix Martens.
In a side chapel of the chancel of the church at Alost, midway between
Brussels and Ghent, is the printer's tomb, and a double inscription, in
Latin and in Flemish, commemorates his celebrity and the dates of his
birth and death; in the Latin inscription the name is Theodoricus
Martinus; in the Flemish, which is very old and nearly effaced, it is
Diedrych Meertens.
The name of _Meertens_, as a surname, is as common in Brabant and
Flanders as that of Martin with us.