General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . 547 at Balingen in the duchyof Wirtemberg. His father, who was a mini-ster, educated him with great care •, and suchwas his early progress at the university of Tu-bingen, that he became a versifier in Greek andLatin at the age of thirteen. He taught thebelles-lettres at that seminary and elsewhere,and employed a new method of instructing hisscholars in grammar. Not content with this,he declared war against all former
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . 547 at Balingen in the duchyof Wirtemberg. His father, who was a mini-ster, educated him with great care •, and suchwas his early progress at the university of Tu-bingen, that he became a versifier in Greek andLatin at the age of thirteen. He taught thebelles-lettres at that seminary and elsewhere,and employed a new method of instructing hisscholars in grammar. Not content with this,he declared war against all former gramma-rians, in a work entitled Strigil Gramma-tical which involved him in some angry con-troversy with others of the profession. In acommentary which he published on the Buco-lics and Georgics of Virgil, he indulged such anacrimony of style in declaiming upon the com-parison between the innocence of a countrylife, and the corrupt manners of the great, thathe was compelled to quit his native country,and wander through the towns of possessed a wonderful facility in poeticalcomposition, and there are numbered amonglus works siiteen books of elegies, seven co-~. 0~QhtticcL Itan eft Na±uma FRISIUS illc; lnilolvpkw Tiaurt auv fuih arte jrvVui. Trirntn. -fr. FR I C 247 ) F R I medles, two tragedies, odes, anagrams, andheroic verses in abundance. That this facilitywas accompanied with mediocrity, may besafely concluded ; his comedy of Rebecca, how-ever, obtained for him the golden laurel andthe title of crowned poet from the hands of theemperor Rodolph. He was less fortunate inpleasing his sovereign, the duke of Wirtemberg,though he wrote seven books of heroics on hismarriage. For having, from his retreat atMentz, made a fruitless application for a pecu-niary remittance, lie wrote back a remonstranceso full of abuse, that he was arrested, and car-ried to the prison of Aurach, in the to escape thence by cutting hissheets into slips, and letting himself d
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