, a learned professor of the mathematics and of the Hebrew language,
, a learned professor of the mathematics and of the Hebrew language, was born in the
county of Merckenstein, in Austria, in 1511. He studied
successively at the universities of Ingoldstadt, Leipsic, and
Basil, from which last he went to Memmingen, in Swabia,
on an invitation from the magistrates to become mathematical professor in that city; and afterwards to Tubingen,
and was elected professor of Hebrew, with which he joined
a course of lectures on the mathematics. In 1552 he accepted of the united professorships of mathematics and
Hebrew at Friburg, which he held for more than twentyseven years. He died in 1579, in the sixty-ninth year of
his age. He was author of “Commentaria in Theorias
Planetarum;
” “De primo mobili;
” “Commentaria in
Sphaeram Joannis de Sacrobosco;
” “In Almagestum Ptolomaei Annotationes;
” “Gentium Kalendarium;
” “Oratio funebris de Obitu Sebastiani Munsterii,
” written in the
Hebrew language. He likewise translated the New Testament into Hebrew, and wrote paraphrases on several
books of the Bible.