, a native of Marpurg, and a celebrated critic in the Latin language,
, a native of
Marpurg, and a celebrated critic in the Latin language,
was born in 1693. He was educated at the university of
Rintlen in Westphalia, and was a writer of several
philological tracts in Latin. But the most celebrated part of
his works consists of several treatises which he published
successively on the history of the Latin language, beginning with its original formation, and pursuing it through
the several ages, from youth to extreme old age. His
treatises “De Origine Latinae Linguae,
” and “De Pueritia Latins Linguae,
” were published in