STURLSONIUS SNORRO, an illustrious Icelander, was of an ancient family; and was Minister of State to the King of Sweden; and to three Kings of Norway. A sedition obliged him to retire to Iceland; of which he was Governor : but in 1241, his enemy Gissuro forced his castle, and put him to death. We have of him: 1. Chronicon Regum Norwegorum. 2. Edda Islandica, translated into French by MALLET, in his History of Denmark. An edition of this was published by Resenius, Hanau, 1665. 4.° OLAUS RUDBECK was born in 1680, and was Professor of Anatomy and Botany at Upsal, where he died in 1702, æt. 73. His Atlantica vera Japhæti posterorum sedes ac patria, 1679, 1689, et 1698, 3 vol. fol. is full of erudition; but of an erudition which oppresses; in which the author sustains the most marvellous paradoxes. He pretends that Sweden was the Atlantis of Plato. (Sig. Baer pretends that the Atlantis was Palestine.) See NICERON, xxxi. 153, 163. ART. LXI. CHARLATANERIA. 1. De Charlataneria Eruditorum Declamationes duæ. Lip siæ, 1715. 8.0 and Antiquarian and Archive- «. Accessit Epis King. He died in 1690. OLAUS MAGNUS, Ar Em Philomusum de initate. Editio Tertia. ) 1716. 8.0 which Archbishopric Fa. La Haye, 1721. 8.o John, in 1544,) a the Council of Tre much in his own figures cut Translations, printed at Hall; and nslations in English, Spanish, etc. brated jeu d'esprit of JOHN BURor MENCKENIUS. Its object was to tricks and artifices of false Savants. by the Gisibly drew particular characters, his lusions excited a resentment, which obstacle to the circulation of his Book. Тно and died part lab of of N B and a materials the er did not prevent its reimpression. share in the Dictionary of the Learned in German at Leipsic, in 1715. He plan; and furnished the principal wrote the articles on Italian : and and English This Books. Author was born at Leipsic, on 8.th April, 164; the son of Othon Menke, (1) by Magde laine Sibylla Berlich. Lia, the son 1) OTHON MENCKE was born at Oldenbourg, a city of Westpha of John Mencke, Merchant and Senator of the City, Sophia Spiesmacher. He studied, and took his degrees at by Anne He was received Master of Arts at Leipsic, in 1694; and then having applied some time to the study of Theology, travelled in Holland, and England. On his return to Leipsic, 1699, he was named Professor of History. His first design was to embrace the profession of Theology; but he soon abandoned it for Law: in which science he received the degree of Doctor at Hall, in 1701. With this title he returned to Leipsic to continue his Lectures on History, by which he gained much reputation. In 1708, Frederic Augustus, King of Poland, and Elector of Saxony, appointed him his Historiographer; Bremen. In 1668, he was appointed Professor of Morals in the University of Leipsic; and in 1671 took the degree of Licentiate in Theology. He filled his Professor's chair with reputation to the end of his life; and was five times Rector of the University of Leipsic, and seven times Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. He was the first author of the Journal of Leipsic, in which he laboured all his life. The work commenced at Leipsic, in 1682, under the title of Acta Eruditorum. When he formed this design, he commenced a correspondence with the learned of every country and for this purpose also travelled to Holland, and to England. He associated with him many able persons to assist him in his labours; and took every measure necessary to render his undertaking durable. Every year appeared a volume in quarto, with Supplements from time to time; and an Index every ten years. So that thirty volumes were published before his death. On his deathbed he made his son John Burchard M. promise that he would always continue the work, which he had much at heart; and the son punctually executed the promise. He died 29. Jan. 1707, æt. 63. to which he added, in 1709, that of Counsellor; and in 1723 that of Aulic Counsellor. He married Catharine Margaret Gleditsch, daughter of a Bookseller at Leipsic, with whom he lived thirty years; and by whom he had two sons, Frederic Otto, and Charles Otto. His health began to give way at a middle age; and he died 1. April, 1732, aged 58. NICERON gives a List of 29 Works written or edited by him. Among these are: Petri Alcyonii Medices Legatus, sive de Exilio Libri duo. Accessere Joan. Pierius Valerianus, et Cornelius Tollius de Infelicitate Litteratorum, ut et Josephus Barberius de Mistria Poetarum Græcorum, cum Præfatione Joan. Burch. Menckenii. Lipsia, 1707. in 12.0 Niceron observes that all these works deserved to be reprinted, with the exception of that of Barberius, which is but a miserable rhapsody. The present Editor reprinted the Tract of Valerianus at Geneva, in 1821. (See Gent. Mag. Feb. 1822.) M. Antonii Campani, Episcopi Aurusini, Epistolæ et Poemata, una cum vita Autoris. Recensuit Joan. Burch. Menckenius. Lipsiæ, 1707. in 12.0 The Life is an abridgement of that, which Michel Ferno had put at the head of bis Edition of the Work of Campanus. Mencke has appended a Discourse pronounced at Leipsic in He was received Master of Arts at Leipsic, in 1694; and then having applied some time to the study of Theology, travelled in Holland, and England. On his return to Leipsic, 1699, he was named Professor of History. His first design was to embrace the profession of Theology; but he soon abandoned it for Law: in which science he received the degree of Doctor at Hall, in 1701. With this title he returned to Leipsic to continue his Lectures on History, by which he gained much reputation. In 1708, Frederic Augustus, King of Poland, and Elector of Saxony, appointed him his Historiographer; Bremen. In 1668, he was appointed Professor of Morals in the University of Leipsic; and in 1671 took the degree of Licentiate in Theology. He filled his Professor's chair with reputation to the end of his life; and was five times Rector of the University of Leipsic, and seven times Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. He was the first author of the Journal of Leipsic, in which he laboured all his life. The work commenced at Leipsic, in 1682, under the title of Acta Eruditorum. When he formed this design, he commenced a correspondence with the learned of every country and for this purpose also travelled to Holland, and to England. He associated with him many able persons to assist him in his labours; and took every measure necessary to render his undertaking durable. Every year appeared a volume in quarto, with Supplements from time to time; and an Index every ten years. So that thirty volumes were published before his death. On his deathbed he made his son John Burchard M. promise that he would always continue the work, which he had much at heart; and the son punctually executed the promise. He died 29. Jan. 1707, æt. 63. See NICERON, XXXI. 248. |