, whom we have just mentioned as the editor of Cino da Pistoia’s works,
, whom we have just mentioned as
the editor of Cino da Pistoia’s works, was a learned
Lutheran, born at Mosbach in the Palatinate, March 24,
1529. He studied at Heidelberg, and took his master’s
degree in 1547, and afterwards taught the Aristotelian
philosophy and mathematics. To improve himself farther
he went to Strasburgh, where Bucer, the celebrated reformer, and his relation, instructed him in the principles
of the reformation, and where he was confirmed in them by
studying divinity under Lutheran professors. The fame of
Melancthon induced him next to visit him at Wittemberg,
whence he returned in 1552 to Heidelberg, and was appointed by the elector Frederic to the chair of professor of
moral philosophy. He also lectured on Aristotle’s Ethics
and Cicero “De Finibus, until in 1553, the plague breaking out, he went to France- and Italy and was m>ade doctor
of laws at Pisa in 1559. The same year he returned to
Heidelberg, where he was appointed professor of the
Pandects, and counsellor to the elector Palatine Frederic
III. Some time after he succeeded Baudoin as professor
of civil law; and in 1563 he filled the office of rector of
the university of Heidelberg, and several other honourable
situations under the elector Lewis. He died at Heidelberg March G, 1583. The principal of his original works
were published in a thick octavo of 1031 pages, with a life
by the editor Reuter, under the title of
” N. Cisneri, &c.
opuscula historica et politico-philologica, distributa in
libros quatuor,“Francfort, 1611. This contains twentythree treatises, on subjects of history, philology, biography,
&c. besides poems and letters. He published also some
works on law, and was editor, as we have noticed, of the
works of Cino da Pistoia, of Aventinus’s annals, Albert
Krantz’s
” Saxonia,“Duarenus’s works, 1578, 2 vols. folio,
and of
” Simonis Chardii Scriptores rerum Germanicarum,"
Basil, 1574, 4 vols. folio.