, was born in the village of Loosdrecht, about 1606, and had scarcely
, was born in the village
of Loosdrecht, about 1606, and had scarcely reached his
twenty-third year, when his talents recommended him to a
professorship in the university of Leyden, where he died
1642, in the thirty-sixth year of his age. His works,
printed at Leyden in 1631, 12mo, contain a satire on the
manners of youth, a little too highly coloured in some parts;
some Latin poetical addresses to his learned contemporaries; and several Latin poems, which were reprinted at
Leyden in 1637, 12mo, under the title of “Joan Bodecheri
Benningii poemata,
” 4to. He was also author of “Dissertatio epistolica de philosophise et poetices studiis conjungendis,
” which is printed with the preceding.