, nephew to the preceding, was born at Campen in 1520;. and, when grown up, went to Rome, where
, nephew to the preceding,
was born at Campen in 1520;. and, when grown up, went
to Rome, where he spent eight years in the study of Roman antiquities, of which he acquired a knowledge that
was not exceeded by any of his time. He then returned
to Germany, and was taken into the family of the cardinal
de Granvelle, who made him his librarian. He published
an early, but not very correct eaition of Valerius iYlaximus,
in 1567, 8vo. Afterwards he became preceptor to Charles,
prince of Juliers and Cleves, and was to have attended him
to Rome: but in this he was disappointed by the death of
the prince, whose loss he deplored in a panegyric, entitled
“Hercules Prodicus;
” for which the prince’s father, William, made him canon of the church, and head master of
the school, at Santen. He died at Santen in 1604, aged
eighty-four.