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Vihti Latin, a " Hiftory of the Tnice." He alfo acquired 

 great reputation, both as a poet and profe-writer in that 

 language. Towards the clofe of liis lite, he incurred the 

 dilplealure of prince Maurice, by his harangues in favour of 

 eace ; and he offended many perfons by his political and re- 

 igious fentiments, as w«ll as by his moral conduft, which 

 was not fuch as to fecure refpeft. His poems indicate an 

 irritable temper, and abound with claflical abufe and defa- 

 mation ; and particularly agaiiift the enemies of Scaliger. 

 Moreover, he was boaftful, vain, importunate, and felfiih : 

 and his licentioufnefs, both with regard to wine and women, 

 involved him in much difgrace. He died at Leyden in 

 1613. His poems, which maniftft gravity and fonouroufnefs 

 of didlion and elevation of fcntim.ent, were firll colletled and 

 printed in 1587 ; and a more complete colledtion was printed 

 at Leyden in 1607, and reprinted at Amfterdam, and other 

 places. The " Letters" of Baudius, publllhed after his 

 death, are more cfteemed for their ftyie, than his poems. 

 He alfo pnblidied " Harangues," and fome other pieces, 

 all in Latin. Gen. Diet. 



BAUDOBRICUM, or Baudobrica, in indent Geo- 

 graphy, a place of Gallia Belgica, upon the banlis of the 

 Rhine, fouth of Conflueiites. The machines of war, called 

 Balillx, were under the conduft of a prefeft refiding in this 

 place ; and the head-quarters of the general were at Mogon- 

 tiacuiTi, or Mayence. — Baudolrka was alfo another place of 

 Belgica Pnma, north-eail of Augufta Trevirorum, now Bop- 

 fart.. 



BAUDOUIN, Francis, in Latin Bald'X'tr.us, in Bio- 

 graphy, an eminent civilian and man of letters, was born at 

 Arras in 1520, ihidied at Louvain, and in his youth refided 

 at the court of Charles V. At Geneva he became intimate 

 ■with Calvin, and embraced the reformed religion. In France 

 lie conformed to the religion of the country, and taught the 

 law at Bourges from 1538 to 154^. In Germany he de- 

 livered leftures at Strafburg, Heidelberg, and other places, 

 avowing himfelf a protcftant ; but by joining CafTander in a 

 projeft for bringing about a coalition of religions, he excited 

 the lafting difpleafurc of Calvin and Beza, and others of the 

 reformed party. He enjoyed the favour of cardinal Lorrain, 

 the inveterate enemy of the Calvinifts, and is fuppofed to 

 have induced Antony, the weak king of Navarre, to aban- 

 don them. By that prince he was patronized, and ap- 

 pointed his delegate at the council of Trent. Upon the 

 death of Antony in 1562, he was invited to Douay rfnd Be- 

 fan(;on, and finally fettled at Paris, where his reputation, 

 acquired by feveral learned works which he had pubhfhed, 

 rendered his leftures popular among perfons of the firll dif- 

 tinftion. The duke of Anjou, afterwards Henry III, widied 

 to engage his pen in the julliiication of the maffacre of St. 

 Bartholomew's ; but to this prince he delivered his fenti- 

 ments like an honell man, and was fo much eilccmed by him 

 that he appointed him one of his counfellors of ftate. AVhilll 

 he was preparing to follow Henry to Polaiid, he wa^ leized 

 with a fever, which terminated his life at the college of 

 Arras in Paris in I57_'!. fie was dillinguiflied by his exten- 

 five knowledge, admirable memory, and perfuafive eloquence. 

 Notwith Handing the juil reproach which he incurred by 

 his vcrfatility in religion, fo that he was opprobrioufly deno- 

 minated an " Hermaphrodite," he appears to have been a 

 man of moderate and tolerating principles, and whilft he con- 

 demned the feverities exercifed agaiuft the Proteftants in the 

 Low Countries, he alfo cenfured the unjuftifiable zeal of 

 Calvin in the perfecution of Servetus. His I^atin flyle was 

 pure and elegant, and he left feveral works on the civil law, 

 and alfo in ecclefiallical hilloi-y and controverfy, which have 

 been much efleemed. Gen. Did. Nouv. \j\b.. Hill. 

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BAUDRAND, Michael Antont, a celebrated 

 geographer, was bom at Paris in 1633. When he had 

 finifhed his ftudies, he accompanied cardinal Antonio Bar- 

 bcrini as his fecretary to Rome ; and upon his return to 

 France, he was employed in rcvifing Ferrarius's Geograpbi- 

 cal Diftionary, which he enlarged by one half, and publifhed 

 at Paris in 1671, fol. By his travels in Germany, and his 

 vifit to England, he was furnifhed with a variety of obferva- 

 tions that were ufeful to him in tht compilation of hii geo- 

 graphy. Upon his return to France in 1677, he compofed 

 his Geographical Dictionary in Latin, intitlcd " Geographia 

 ordiiie hterarum difpofita ;" Paris 16S2, 2 vols. fol. Aftera- 

 journey to Rome in 1691, he applied himfelf at Paris to the 

 completion of his French Geographical Dictionar)-, which he 

 was prevented from publifhing by his death in the year 1700. 

 This work was publilhed at Paris in 1705, in folio, but it is 

 faid to be a corruption rather than a tranflation of the Latin 

 Diftionar)', printed in 1682. Gen. Dift. 



BAUDROYE, in Ichthydogy, the name of the angler, or 

 fifiingfrog (LoPHlusPisCATORius)in Camper ath Pari/. &c. 



BAUGE, in Commerce, a drugget manufaftured in Bur- 

 gundy, with thread, fpun thick, and coarfe wool. _ ' _ 



Bauge, ill Geography, a town of France, and principal 

 place of a dillrift, in the department of the Mayne and Loire, 

 ieated on the river Coefnon, containing about 4000 inhabi- 

 tants ; 6 leagues E.N.E. from Angers. N. lat. 47° 31'. 

 E. long. 0° 10'. 



Bauge, a town of Brcffe in France, pleafantly fituated on 

 a fruitful hill. N. lat. 46^ 40'. E. long. 4° 54'. 



BAUERWITZ, or Paurwitz, a town of Silefia, 

 in the province of Jagerndorf, on the river Zinna, 10 miles 

 N. W. from Ratibor. The neighbsurhood is a rich corn 

 country. 



BAUHIN, John, in Biography, born at Amiens in 

 151 1, was early fent by his fatiier to learn the praftice of 

 medicine and furgery, under an uncle ol the fame name at Paris. 

 Here he had opportunity of hearing the leflures of Fcrne- 

 lius and Sylvius, and of feeing the praftice of Tagault, 

 then in high reputation. Under thefe celebrated mailers he 

 made fuch progrefs, that wdien only feventeen years of age, 

 he was taken into the fervice of Catherine Q_ueen of Navarre, 

 and made her phyfician. Reading about this time the tran- 

 flation of the New Teftament into Latin by Erafmus, and 

 becoming thence a profelyte to the reformed religion, to 

 avoid perfecution he came to England, but at the end of 

 twelve months, being affured of proteftion, he returned to 

 Paris. Here, however, he was fo3ii laid hold of, accufed of 

 herefy, and committed to prif n, whence, at the end of 

 eighteen months, he only efcaped with his life, through the 

 iiiterceffion of his patronefs, queen Catherine. Removing 

 from Paris, he went to Antwerp, wiiere for fome time he 

 taught and praclifed medicine and furgery ; but the perfecu- 

 tion againfl'the favourers of the new doctrines commencing 

 there, he fled with his family to Bafle. Here he was at firS 

 employed by Frobenius, the famed printer, in correfting the 

 pvefs, until after giving the neccffary proofs of his profi- 

 ciency in medicir :, he was admitted to praftice, and foon 

 acquired confiderable celebrity, and in 1580, was made dean 

 of the faculty. He died in 1582, aged 71 years. The only- 

 work left by him, is " Quefliones trcs medicse, totidemque 

 conclufiones ;" print -d at Bafle, in IJ58, fol. : probably 

 an academical exercife. Athense Bauricse. 



Bauhin, John, fon of the former, bom at Lyons, in 

 1 54 1, fhewing early a difpofition to the ftudy of botany, after 

 going through the preliminaiy exercifes, was fent by his 

 father, when only twenty years of age, to accompany the 

 celebrated Gefner in hia excurfions over tlie greater part 



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