, a learned compiler, was born Aug. 10, 1537, at Bergzabern in the
, a learned compiler, was born Aug. 10,
1537, at Bergzabern in the duchy of Deux Fonts, and was
educated in law and philosophy at Strasburgli, Wirtemberg,
Tubingen, and other celebrated academies, and afterwards
was entrusted with the education of some noblemen’s sons,
with whom he travelled in France, &c. from 1564 to 1567.
Returning then to Dol, he took the degree of licentiate in
civil law, and settled in practice at Spire, where two years
after he was admitted into the number of assessors. In
1569 he attended Wolfgang, the elector Palatine, who came
with an army to the assistance of the French protestants,
and his highness dying a few months afterwards, Wolfe
conducted his corpse back to Germany by sea, and it was
interred at Meisenheim. For this melancholy duty and his
other faithful services he grew in esteem with Philip Lewis
and John, the electors Palatine, who thought him worthy of
being sent twice on important'business to queen Elizabeth of
England, and once to the king of Poland. In 1573 Charles
marquis of Baden made him one of his counsellors, and
in 1575 appointed him governor of Mundlesheim, which
office he held for twenty years, and received many honours
and marks of favour from the Baden family. In 1594,
finding his health exhausted by official fatigues, he retired
to Hailbrun, where he passed the remainder of his days in
study, and died of a very short illness, as had always been
his wish, May 23, 1600, in the sixty-third year of his
age. He wrote “Clavis Historiarum;
” and a larger work
entitled “Lectionum memorabilium et reconditarum Centuriae XVI.
” 2 vols. fol. printed first in the year he died,
but there is an edition of 1671, which is not so much valued. Mr. Dibdin has accurately described this curious
work in his “Bibliomania,
” to which the reader is referred.