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early part of his education at the place of his nativity; 
and in 1693 repaired to Jena, where he took, the degree 
of matter of arts in 1696. He removed from hence to 
Frankfort qn the Maine, to ftudy the oriental languages 
under the celebrated Ludolph ; by whofe advice he 
went afterwards to Gieffen, to attend the leXures of 
Mai and Hedinger. He then made a tour to Holland 
and the Netherlands, where he infpedted the different 
libraries, and formed connexions with various men of 
letters. He next paid a vifit to Hamburg and Helm- 
ttadt ; and, in 1699, received an invitation to be deacon 
of the church of St. Peter and St. Paul at Gottar. Here 
he continued his ftudies with the utmoft afliduity, and 
obtained great reputation by feveral learned works. 
After nine years’ r'efidence at Gottar he was appointed, 
in 1709, paftor of St. Ulrich’s church, and in 1711 of 
our Lady’s church, at Halle, where he died in Septem¬ 
ber, 1722. His works are, 1. Antiquitates Gojlarienjium & 
vicinarum Regionum Lib. VI. Franco/. 1707, folio. 2. Dia¬ 
tribe genealogica de Domus Prujfico-Brandenburgica ex Stirpe 
Carolina Originibus, Qucdlinb. 1707, folio. 3. De Veteribus 
Germanorum aliarumque Nationum Sigillis eorumque Ufu (3 Pra- 
Jlantia, Syntagma hijloricum, cum Sigillorum Iconibus, Lipf. 
1709, folio. 4. Dijfertatio de Abfokitione Mortuorum excom- 
municatorum feu tympanicorum in Eccle/ia Graca , Helmjl. 1709, 
4to. 5. Eigentliche und Wahrhaftige Abbildung dcr alten 
md neuen Griechifchen Kirche, (3c. A View of tne Ancient 
and Modern Greek Church, &c. Leipfec, 1711, 4to; with 
plates. 6. De Mini/Iris, Ccefarum gentilium Chrijiianis ; Halts 
Magdeb. 1712, 4to. 
HEI'NEKEN (Chriftian Henry), amoft extraordinary 
infant fcholar, born at Lubec, February 6, 1721, and 
died there, June 27, 1725, after having difplayed the moft 
amazing proofs of intellectual talents. He had not com¬ 
pleted his firft year of life, when he already knew and 
recited the principal fa£ts contained in the five books of 
Mofes, with a number of verfes on the creation. In his 
fourteenth month he knew all the hiftory of the bible ; 
in his thirtieth month, the hiftory of the nations of anti¬ 
quity, geography, anatomy, the ufe of maps, and nearly 
8000 Latin words: before the end of his third year, the 
hiftory of Denmark, and the genealogy of the crowned 
heads of Europe ; in his fourth year, the dodhines of 
divinity, with their proofs from the bible; ecclefiaftical 
hiftory ; the inftitutions; 200 hymns, with their tunes; 
eighty pfalms; entire chapters of the Old and New Tef- 
tament; 1500 verfes and fentences from ancient Latin 
dailies; almoft 'the whole Orbis PiXus of Comenius, 
whence he had derived all his knowledge of the Latin 
tongue; arithmetic; the hiftory of the European em¬ 
pires and kingdoms ; could point out in the maps what¬ 
ever place he was afleed for, or paffed by in his journeys, 
and recite all the ancient and modern hiftorical anecdotes 
relating to it. His ftupendous memory caught and re¬ 
tained every word he was told : his ever-aXive imagina¬ 
tion ufed, at whatever he.faw or heard, inftantly to ap¬ 
ply, according to the laws of aifociation of ideas, fome 
examples or fentences from the bible, geography, pro¬ 
fane or ecclefiaftical hiftory, the Orbis PiXus, or from 
ancient dailies. At the court of Denmark, he delivered 
twelve fpeeches without once faltering ; and underwent 
public examinations on a variety of fubjeXs, efpecially 
the hiftory of Denmark. He fpoke' German, Latin, 
French, and Low Dutch, and was exceedingly good- 
natured and well-behaveU, but of a moft tender and de¬ 
licate bodily conftitution ; never ate any folid food, but 
chiefly fubfifted on nurfes’ s milk. He was celebrated, 
fays’the account, all over Europe, under the name of 
the Learned Child of Lubec. He died at the age of four 
years, four months, twenty days, and twenty-one hours ; 
and his death was recorded in a number of periodical 
papers.—We give this account as we received it. 
HEI'NENFELD, a town of Germany, in Franconia, 
and county of Wertheim: nine miles north-eaft of 
Wertheim. 
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HEI'NOUS, adj. \_haineux t Fr. from haine, hate; or 
from the Teutonic, / \oon , lhame.] Atrocious; wicked in 
a high degree.—To abrogate or innovate the gofpel of 
Chrift, if men or angels fhould attempt, it were moft 
heinous and accurfed facrilege. Hooker. 
This is the man fhould do the bloody deed: 
The image of a wicked heinous fault 
Lives in his eye. ' Shahefpeare. 
HEI'NOUSLY, adv. Atrociotifly; wickedly.—There 
fcarcely is, or can be, any creature, whom confcioufnefs 
of villany does not at all offend; nor any thing oppro¬ 
brious, or heinoufly imputable, move or affeX. Shaftejbury . 
HEl'NOUSNESS,/. Atrocioufnefs ; wickednefs.—. 
He who can treat offences, provoking God, as jefts and 
trifles, mull have little fenfe of the heinovfne/s of them. 
Rogers. 
HEIN'RICHSDORF, a town of Germany, in Upper 
Saxony, and duchy of Pomerania : four miles fouth of 
Rumellburg. 
HEIN'RICHSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria: four miles fouth-weft of Bohmifch 
Waidhoven. 
HEINS'BERG, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, 
and duchy of J uliers: ten miles fouth-eaft of Ruremond. 
Lat. 51.8.N. Ion. 23436. E. Ferro. 
HEIN'SIUS (Daniel), an eminent fcholar and poet, 
born in 1580, at Ghent. At the age of fourteen he was 
fent to ftudy the law at Franeker; but his attention was 
there chiefly turned to Greek literature, in which he 
made a rapid progrefs. On his removal to the univer- 
fity of Leyden, he purfued fimilar objedls; but the 
principal advantage he there enjoyed was the inftruXion 
of Jofeph Scaliger, who conceived a high opinion of his 
capacity, and gave him every encouragement. He was 
not lefs in favour with that elegant fcholar, Janus Doufa. 
At the age of twenty he began to read public leXures 
at Leyden on the Latin and Crreek authors. He was af¬ 
terwards appointed profeffor of hiftory, and made fecre- 
tary and librarian to the univerfity. In 1619 he was ap¬ 
pointed fecretary to the ftates of Holland at the fynod 
of Dort. His great reputation procured for him the 
title of counfellor to Guftavus Adolphus, and of knight 
of St. Mark at Venice. Pope Urban VIII. made him 
great offers if he would fettle at Rome; but he preferred 
remaining at Leyden, where he died in 1655. As a com¬ 
mentator and critic hepubliflied notes on Silius Italicus 
and the New Tellament, and edited Horace, Seneca’s 
Tragedies, Hefiod, Maximus Tyrius, Theocritus, An- 
dronicus on Ariftotle’s Ethics, Theophraftus, Clemens 
Alexandrinus, and others. His tranflations from the 
Greek are accounted fomewliat too florid. Of his ori¬ 
ginal produXions, his Latin poems are the moft cele¬ 
brated, and undoubtedly place him among the beft com- 
pofers of modern Latin verfe. They confift of .elegies, 
mifcellanies, and two tragedies; one of which, entitled 
Herodes Infanticida, was thought worthy of being made a 
fubjeX of controverfy among the learned. His Greek 
poems were alfo much efteemed. More than ten edi¬ 
tions of his Latin and Greek poems were printed at Ley¬ 
den and Amfterdam. He alfo wrote verfes in his native 
tongue. He pronounced Latin orations on various occa- 
fions, which were publiftied together at Leyden; and 
compofedTome Menippaean fatires, and other pieces. 
HEIN'SIUS (Nicholas), fon of the preceding, born 
at Leyden, in 1620; and had the advantage of being 
initiated in polite learning under his father. In his 
twenty-firft year he vifited England, for the purpofe of 
collating manuferipts in the univerfity libraries. He 
fpent feveral fucceeding years in his travels into Flan¬ 
ders, Germany, France, and Italy, in which laft country 
he made a long ftay, occupying himfelf in making col- 
leXions of medals and inferiptions. Here he publiftied 
his Latin elegies under the title of Italics , which efta- 
blilhed his fame in that country. In 1649, hearing that 
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