, a learned Bohemian, was born at Schlackowald, in 1584, and after
, a learned Bohemian,
was born at Schlackowald, in 1584, and after receiving the
first rudiments of education at home, was sent in 1603,
first to Jena, and afterwards to Wittemberg, where he
studied divinity, philosophy, and the learned languages,
in which last, particularly the oriental languages, he became critically skilled. He also taught the oriental languages at Wittemberg, published several critical works,
which were highly esteemed, and had for his pupils many
young men who were afterwards authors of great name.
His reputation extending to Austria, he was invited in
1614 to become pastor at Geschwend, where he remained
five years, until he was induced to accept the pastoral office at Muhlgrub, the residence of a nobleman named
Fenzelius, who offered him the situation, with a liberal
income; and here, probably, he would have spent his
days, had not Ferdinand II, banished all Lutheran preachers
and teachers, which obliged him to go to Ratisbon, and
afterwards to Nuremberg. He was then made professor of
divinity at Altdorff, which he enjoyed only four years,
dying there, of what his biographers call the falling sickness, (comitialis morbus), Aug. 28, 1629. His principal
works are, 1. “A Dissertation on the Confusion of
Tongues.
” 2. “Exercitationes Hebraicse.
” 3. “Gymnasium & Lexicon Syriacum,
” 2 vols. 4to. 4. “Lingua
Samaritica,
” 4to. 5. “Grammatica Chaldaica,
” 4to.
6. “De auctoritate verbi divini in Hebraico codice,
” Amsterdam,