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STRUVE, BURKHARD GOTTHELF. 



STRYPE, REV. JOHN. 



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prospect of employment opened to him. In 1695 he published at 

 Frankfurt-on-the-Maiu some notes on the legal doubts of Gothofredus 

 (known among jurists as the Jtnmo of Gothofredus), from a manu- 

 script of his father. In 1696 he published a letter to his old teacher 

 Celliirius, 'De Bibliothecarum barumque Prsefectis.' At last, in 1697, 

 he was appointed by the patrons of the University of Jena curator of 

 the library. Upon receiving this appointment he opened private 

 classes giving instruction, according as his pupils desired, in physics, 

 the elements of the Greek language, Roman antiquities, or history. 

 The number of young men who attended him excited the envy of 

 the established teachers, and drew down upon him the active enmity 

 of Schubart. It was found necessary to provide himself with a legiti- 

 mation as teacher; and for this end he, in the year 1702, took the 

 degree of Doctor of Law and Philosophy at Halle, the usual fees being 

 remitted at the solicitation of Stryk and Cellarius. 



As soon as he obtained his degree he took measures for having him- 

 self enrolled as Doctor Legens at Jena, and his subsequent career was 

 one of uninterrupted success. On the death of Schubart he was 

 appointed to the chair of history, and he commenced the discharge of 

 its duties in 1704 by publishing a programme ' De Vitiis Historicorum,' 

 and delivering a public oration ' De Meritis Germanorum in Hi?toriam.' 

 His fame as a public teacher attracted many of the young nobility from 

 all parts of Germany, and among others Prince Ernest Augustus, 

 afterwards duke of Weimar. Having received in 1712 an invitation 

 to the University of Kiel, he was induced to decline it by the patrons 

 of Jena conferring upon him the office of historiographer to the uni- 

 versity, the rank of counsellor, and the appointment of extraordinary 

 professor of law. He was promised the succession to the ordinary 

 professorship of feudal law, which he actually obtained a few years 

 later. In 1717 he was appointed a privy councillor by the reigning 

 prince of Baireuth, and in 1730 he received the same compliment 

 from the Saxon court. He repeatedly filled the office of dean in the 

 Philosophical faculty, and was thrice chosen rector of the university. 

 He died May 24, 1738, having nearly completed his sixty-seventh year. 



Struve was thrice married. He was united to his first wife, Anna 

 Elizabetha Bertram, daughter of an assessor in the court attached to 

 the salt-works of Halle, in 1702, who died in 1706, leaving him two 

 daughters. He married in 1707 bis second wife, Regina Elizabetha 

 Staudler, daughter of the town-clerk of Naumburg on the Sala ; the 

 year of her death is uncertain ; she left no surviving children. In 

 1724 he married Sophia Maria, widow of Ernest Friedrich Kittoner, a 

 clergyman in Quedlenburg, who brought him no children. 



The published works of Burkhard Gotthelf Struve are very nume- 

 rous. A complete list of them is given in the ' Acta Eruditorum ' of 

 . Leipzig, published in 1740. The following are the most important, 

 either on account of their subjects and inherent interest, or of the 

 indications they give of the progress and direction of the author's 

 studies : 'Struvius non Errans,' 4to, Franc, ad Viad., 1691 ; 'Biblio- 

 theca Numismatum Antiquorum,' 12mo, Jense, 1693; 'Pia Mortis 

 Desideria in Obitum Susannae Berlichise, matris piatissimse,' 8vo, Jense, 

 1699 ; ' Didaci Saavedrse Abriss eines Christlichen Politischen Prinzen,' 

 12mo, Jenae, 1700; ' Autiquitatem Romanarum Syntagma, sive de 

 Ritibus sacris Systema absolutius, adjecta Bibliotheca, Figuria seueis, 

 et Indicibus necessariis,' Jense, 1700; et auctior., 4to, 1729; 'Acta 

 Literaria ex MStis edita et collecta' (17 fasciculi collated, with the 

 date 1713 on the title-page); ' Bibliotheca Juris Selecta,' Jense, 1703 

 (frequently republished, ultimately with additions by Buder) ; ' Intro- 

 ductio ad Notitiam Rei Literarise, et Usum Bibliothecarum,' Jenoe, 

 1704 (contains the ' Dissertatio de Doctis Impostoribus,' published 

 separately by the author in the preceding year) ; ' Bibliotheca Philoso- 

 phica in suas classes distributa,' 8vo, Jenae, 1 704 (frequently repub- 

 lished latterly with additions by Kahl); ' Selecta Bibliotheca Histories,' 

 8vo, Jense, 1705 (republished with additions by Buder); ' Pii Manes 

 Struviani, seu de Vitis et Scriptis Georgii Adami Strnvii,' 8vo, Jense, 

 1705; 'Syntagma Juris Publici Imperil Romano-Germauici,' 4to, Jense, 

 1710 (reputlished in 1711; and again much enlarged, with the title 

 ' Corpus Juris Publici I. R. G.,' in 1738) ; 'Syntagma Historise Germa- 

 nicse, a primd geutis origine ad annum usque 1716," 4to, Jense, 1716 

 (subsequently published in an enlarged form, with the title ; Corpus 

 Histories Germanicse, a. prima geutis origine ad annum u?que 1730, ex 

 genuinis historiarum documentis, cosevorum scriptorum monumentis, 

 diplomatibus, et ex actis publicis, illustratum cum variis observationi- 

 bus et figuris aeneis, adjecto indice locupletissimo, et opusculis ad 

 historian! Germanicam facientibus ; praemissa est Chrest. Gottl. Buderi 

 Bibliotheca Scriptorum Rerum Germanicaruru, easdem universum 

 illustrantium,' fol., Jense, 1730 (a German translation of this work has 

 been published) ; ' Historia Juris Romano-Justinianei, Grseci, Ger- 

 manici, Canouici, Feudalis, Criminalis, et Publici,' 4to, Jecse, 1718; 

 'Eiuleitung zur Deutsehen Reichs Historic,' 8vo, Jecse, 1724; 'Corpus 

 Juris Publici Academicum,' 8vo, Jenao, 1726 (thrice republisherl) ; 

 'Compendium Juris Feudalis,' 8vo, Jense, 1727 aud 1737; 'Kurtzcr 

 Entwurff zur Einleitnng zur Wissenschaft der Staaten von Deutsuh- 

 land,' 8vo, Jens, 1733 (the title of this work contains the term 

 ' scientia statistics,' the invention of which has been attributed to 

 Acheuwall) ; ' Corpus Juris Gentium, sive Jurisprudent Heroica ex 

 Juris Naturae et Gentium Argumentis petitum, et inuumeris exemplis 

 ex actis publicis editis et iueditis, historiarumque monumentis, omuls 

 aevi illustratum' (this work occupied thirty years of its author's life, 



was left complete, but unpublished, at his death, and appeared at 

 Jena in 1743, edited by J. Aug. Helfeld). 



Much of the reputation of Burkhard Gotthelf Struve during his 

 lifetime seems to have proceeded from his personal amiability, and 

 from his usefulness as a general index. His style is heavy, and his 

 thoughts scarcely ever original or striking. His services to the lite- 

 rature of history aud jurisprudence are great, but they are inaiuly the 

 services of an able librarian and index-maker. To him perhaps rather 

 than to Achenwall belongs the merit of having given a more systematic 

 form to the statistical branch of education as taught in the univer-ities 

 of Germany an important department of information, but too apt to 

 spread out into trivial difFuseness. 



(Nova Acta Eruditorum, anno 1740 publicata, Lipsise, 1740; Ad 

 Nova Acta Eruditorum qua Lipsice publicantur Supplemenla, Tomus 

 iv., Lipsiae, 1742; Pii Manes Struviani, sive de Vita et Scriptis 0. A. 

 Struvii, Jense, 1705; Siblioth&que Germanique, tomes viii. et xliii., 

 Amsterdam, 1724 and 1738; Martini Lipenii, Bibliotlieca Realis Juri- 

 dica, Lipsise, 1757.) 



STRYPE, REV. JOHN, is said to have been of German descent, but 

 he was born in London, 12th November 1643. After having been six 

 years at St Paul's school, he was admitted, in 1661, of Jesus College, 

 Cambridge ; but he soon after removed to Catherine Hall, where he 

 took his Bachelor's degree in 1665, and his Master's in 1669. In the 

 latter year he was presented to the perpetual curacy of Theydou-Boys 

 in Essex ; which however he resigned a few months after, upon being 

 appointed minister of Low Leyton in the same county. Here he con- 

 tinued to reside till within a few years of his death, when he came to 

 live with Mr. Harris, an apothecary at Hackney, who had married hi.s 

 granddaughter. He had been lecturer of Hackney till he resigned 

 that appointment about the year 1724; and he also held along witb 

 bis Essex living the sinecure of Tarring in Sussex, to which he was 

 presented by Archbishop Teniaon. He die! 13th December 1737, in 

 the house of Mr. Harris, at the great age of ninety-four. 



The history of Strype's long life, in so far at least as it ia of any 

 public interest, consists merely of the list of his successive publica- 

 tions. Although his works amount to thirteen large folio volumes, 

 besides octavos and pamphlets, it was not till he had reached his forty- 

 sixth year that he gave any employment to the press, and then he 

 began with a single sermon ; nor did he print anything more till five 

 years after. Then, in 1694, appeared, in a folio volume, the first fruit 

 of his researches in ecclesiastical antiquities, his ' Memorials of the 

 most renowned Father in God Thomas Cranmer, sometime Lord 

 Archbishop of Canterbury.' This was followed, in 1698, by an octavo 

 volume entitled ' The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith, prin- 

 cipal Secretary of State to Edward VI. and Elizabeth ; wherein are 

 discovered many singular matters relating to the State of Learning, 

 the Reformation of Religion, and the Transactions of the Kingdom 

 during his time;' that in 1701 by another octavo volume entitled 

 ' Historical Collections relating to the Life and Acts of Bishop 

 Aylmer ' (or Aelmer, who filled the see of London from 1577 to 1594); 

 and that by his ' Life of Sir John Cheke,' Svo, London, 1705. He 

 published another single sermon in 1708; and the next year he 

 brought out the first volume in folio of his ' Annals of the Reforma- 

 tion and Establishment of Religion,' comprehending the first twelve 

 years of the reign of Elizabeth. Before proceeding further with this 

 work, he produced three more biographical folios as companions to his 

 Life of Cranmer : his ' History of the Life and Acts of Archbishop 

 Grindal,' iu 1710; his 'Life and Acts of Archbishop Parker,' in 1711 ; 

 and his 'Life and Acts of Archbishop Whitgift,' in 1718. Then, 

 digressing to another field of antiquarian investigation, he came forth, 

 in 1720, with his new edition of Stow's 'Survey of London,' in t\\o 

 bulky folios, of which we may safely say that nearly three-fourths 

 consist of his own additions. [STOW.] The next year, 1721, was 

 published what may be regarded as his most important work, his 

 ' Ecclesiastical Memorials, relating chiefly to Religion and the Refor- 

 mation of it, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, under 

 King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., and Queen Mary I.' in three 

 volumes, folio. Of this work a new edition, though limited, we 

 believe, to a very small number of copies, was brought out at London 

 in 1816, in seven volumes, Svo. But Strype's labours were not yet 

 closed : another single sermon, in 1724, ushered in a second edition of 

 the first volume of his 'Annals' in 1725; a second folio volume of 

 that work the same year, bringing down the history of the Church of 

 England to A.D. 1580 ; a third in 1728, embracing the period from 1581 

 to 1588; and a fourth, in 1731, consisting however only of a collec- 

 tion of papers, which the author's advanced years and infirmities 

 prevented him from reducing into a narrative, in illustration of the 

 remainder of the reign of Elizabeth. 



Strype probably spent the first fifty years of his life iu collecting 

 the materials of the voluminous works which he gave to the world in 

 the succeeding" forty. His books all consist for the greater part of 

 masses of original papers, even so much of them as has the form of 

 being his own composition scarcely ever evincing any real digestion of 

 the facts which he sets before his readers. He claims the merit of 

 great fidelity and accuracy, and probably ha may be trusted in 

 general for the correctness of his transeriptioLS, all of which he pro- 

 fesses to have made with his own hand ; but, being really what may 

 be called a dull, almost a stupid man, though possessed of a consider- 



