Falster, Christian

, was a celebrated Danish critic and philologer of Flensburg, the exact time of whose birth and death we have not been able to learn. His chief works, which are all of a curious and interesting nature, and published between the years 1717 and 1731, are: 1. “Supplementum Lingua Latinae,” consisting of | observations on Cellarius’s edition of Faber; Flensburg, 1717. 2. “Animadversiones Epistolicae,” of a similar nature, published at the same place and time. 3. “Quaestiones Romanae,” containing an idea of the literary history of the Romans, with memorials of eminent writers and works; Flensburg, 1718. 4. “Cogitationes Philologicae,” Lips. 1719. 5. “Sermo Panegyricus de variarum gentium bibliothecis,” ibid. 1720. 6. Vigilia prima noctium Ripensium,“containing observations on A. Gellius, Hafnicc, 1721. 7.” Amcenitates Philologicae,“Amst. 1729 32, 3 vols. And, 7.” A Danish translation of the fourteenth satire of Juvenal," Hafn. 1731, in 4to, the rest are 8vo. ¹