, son of the preceding, and one of the greatest geniuses that Germany has produced, was
, son of the preceding, and
one of the greatest geniuses that Germany has produced,
was born September 29, 1649, at Fraustadt. Having acquired great skill in the languages and belles lettres, he
was appointed professor of rhetoric at Breslau, afterwards
principal of Magdalen college in that city, and, at length,
librarian. Gryphins was a good orator and historian, a
man of extensive learning, and an excellent German poet,
which language he considerably improved. He was also
a contributor to the Leipsic Journal. He died March 6,
1706, having just before his death heard a beautiful poem
of his own writing, which had been set to music, performed
in his chamber. The piece is said to have been admirably
expressive of the consolations derived from our Saviour’s
death to a dying man. His works arc, “A History of. the
Orders of Knighthood,
” in German, Poems,
”
in German among them, “Pastorals,
” 8vo; “The German Language formed by degrees, or, a treatise on the
origin and progress of it,
” 8vo, in German, and a valuable
posthumous work, entitled “Apparatus, s?ive Dissertatio
Isagogica de Scriptoribus Historiam Seculi XVII illustrantibus,
” Leipsic, 1710, 8vo.