, professor of Greek at Bale,
was born in that city in 1635, and died there in 1706.
Little besides is known of his history. His great work, the
“Lexicon Universale Historico-Geographico-Poetico-Philosophico-Politico-Philologicnm,
” was first published at
Geneva, in 1677, in two volumes, folio. This being received by the learned with great avidity, he published, a
few years after, a Supplement; which was also rapidly sold
off. In 1698, some of the principal booksellers at Leyden,
encouraged by this success of the work, and having received from the author all his subsequent collections, and
many other additions from various learned men, digested
the whole, with the Supplement, into one alphabet, and
published it in four volumes, folio. In this form it is now
known as a most useful book of reference, and finds a
place in every learned library. For this edition the author wrote a new preface. He also published a “History
of the Popes
” in Latin, 1687, 2 vols. and “Historia Augusta,
” 1687, fol.