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of the court of Rome, though lie protefteci that he was a 
good catholic. In the enfuing reign he endeavoured to 
obtain favour by publiihing, in 1554, a Latin poem enti¬ 
tled PhUippis, on the marriage of Philip and Mary. In 
1564 he was at Copenhagen in quality of preceptor to the 
prince, and with the title of king’s phyiician ; but, the 
climate not agreeing with him, he returned to Holland, 
and fettled at Haerlem. At the fiege of that city by the 
Spaniards in 1572, he retired to Armuyden, and thence to 
Middleburgh; where the change of air, and grief for his 
JofTes on the capture of Haerlem, particularly that of his 
library, brought him to the grave in 1575. He had juft 
been nominated to a medical profefforlhip in the new uni¬ 
verlity of Leyden. Adrian Junius is chiefly known as a 
philologift and linguift. He wrote commentaries on vari¬ 
ous ancient authors, and fix books of his Animadvtrfa are 
Inferted in Gruter’s Thefaurus Grit. He tranflated from 
' the Greek into Latin the works of Hefychius, Eunapius, 
and Caflius jatrofophifta, and corrected the verfion of No¬ 
nius Marcellus; but his tranflations are reckoned inaccu¬ 
rate. His original works are, 1. Commentarius de Anno 
& Menfibus, 1553. 4. De Coma commentarius, 1556. 
3. Emblemata. 4. Poemata. 5. Epiitola. 6. Nomen- 
clator omnium rerum. This vocabulary of feven lan¬ 
guages is a curious and ufeful work, and has been often re¬ 
printed. It is faid that he did not difdain to feek infor¬ 
mation from the loweft clafs of people while colle&ing 
words in the vernacular tongue. 
JU'NIUS, or Du Jon (Francis), a learned French Pro- 
teftant divine, was defcended from a noble family, and 
born at Bourges in the year 1545. He received the early 
part of his education at home, under the infpeCtion of his 
father; and, as he poftefled excellent natural abilities, as 
well as a paflionate defire to excel in learning, at the age 
of thirteen he had made an extraordinary proficiency for 
his years. He then began the ftudy of the civil law ; and, 
after profecuting it with diligence for fome years, was fent 
to Lyons, in order to join the train of the ambalfador from 
the king of France to Conftantinople. Finding, when'he 
arrived at that city, that the ambafiador was departed, he 
received inftrutlions from his father to continue there, 
and attend the leCfures in the public college. Having, by 
the avidity which he difcovered for improvement, recom¬ 
mended himfelf to the notice of the principal, he received 
from him good advice with refpeCl to the right method of 
ftudying, by which he profited with incredible induftry. 
At the commencement of the civil wars in France, with 
liis father’s permiflion he went to Geneva, to perfect his 
acquaintance with the learned languages ; and here receiv¬ 
ed the malancholy intelligence that his father had been 
murdered by the bigotted Catholics, who had long fuf- 
pefted him of an attachment to Lutheranifm. This af¬ 
flicting news determined him to renounce his country, 
and to fupport himfelf at Geneva by the inftruftion of 
youth, while completing his ftudies for the Proteftant mi- 
niftry, in which he was now refolved to engage. He con¬ 
tinued this employment till the year 1565, when he was 
appointed minifter of the Walloon church at Antwerp. 
This was a poft of danger ; but Junius did not decline it, 
and his labours contributed greatly to the fpread of the 
reformed religion, not only in that city, but in the neigh¬ 
bouring countries of Flanders and Brabant. Hence he 
became obnoxious to the inquilition, which had lately 
been introduced into the Low-countries, and many at¬ 
tempts were made by the emiflaries of that tribunal to get 
pofleflion of his perfon, which timely information enabled 
him conftantly to elude. It being after fome time judged 
expedient that he fliould remove into the country of Lim- 
burgh, he exercifed his minifterial functions there with 
great fuccefs, till the dangers to which he was expofed 
from the machinations of the priefts and monks, engaged 
the magiftrates toadvife him to retire into Germany. He 
was very gracioufly received at Heidelburgh by Frederic 
III. elector palatine; and, after taking a journey to Bour¬ 
ges, to vifit his mother, he returned to the dominions of 
that prince, where lie was appointed minilter of the fmall 
church of Schoon. In year 156S, the eleCror palatine fent 
Junius to the army of the prince of Orange, which he ac¬ 
companied in the capacity of chaplain to that prince du¬ 
ring the unfortunate expedition to the Netherlands, ami 
till the return of the remaining troops into Germany, when 
he relumed his minifterial functions at Schoon. In the 
year 1573, he was fent for to Heidelbergh by the elector 
palatine, to be employed, conjointly with Tremellius, on 
a Latin tranflation of the Old Teftament; and five years 
afterwards he was appointed by prince Cafimir theological 
profelfor in the new college which he had eltabliflied at 
Newftadt. From Newftadt the prince fent him to fuper- 
intend the eftablilhment of his new colony at Otterburg-, 
of which he officiated as minifter for eighteen months, and 
then returned to the duties of his profelforlhip, till the 
prince became adminiftrator of the electorate, when he 
was called to Heidelburgh, to fill the divinity-chair in that 
univerlity. In that fituation he continued till the return 
of the duke of Bouillon into France, when he received 
the command of the king, Henry IV. to attend that no¬ 
bleman into his native country. Having been prefented 
to his majefty, he was inftruCled to return into Germany 
on lome bulinefs, and then to refign his profefforlhip at 
Heidelburgh. In his way back to France, after executing 
the king’s commiffion, his family-affairs rendering it necel- 
fary for him to pafs through Holland, he was received 
with diltinguilhed refpeft at Leyden, by the magiftrates 
and the univerlity, and ftrongly folicited to fill the diyi- 
nity-chair in that feminary. Having obtained the confent 
of the French ambafiador, he accepted that office in the 
year 1594, and filled it ten years with great ability and 
reputation. He died of the plague in 1604, in the fifty- 
feventh year of his age, leaving behind him the character 
of a learned, indefatigably-laborious, honeft, and remark- 
ably-modeft, man, fincerely and ardently attached to the 
Proteftant caufe, but whofe zeal was mingled with difcre- 
tion, and his fteady adherence to what he conlidered to be 
truth connected with charity towards tliofe who differed 
molt widely from him in opinion. He was the author of 
numerous works,, theological, controverfial, and philolo¬ 
gical ; of which the principal are, 1. Commentaries on 
the firft three chapters of Genefis, the prophecies of Eze¬ 
kiel, Daniel, and Jonah. 4. Sacred Parallels, and Notes 
upon the Revelation and the Epiltle of St. Jude; toge¬ 
ther with numerous theological and controverfial treadles, 
which, with the preceding, were printed at Geneva in 
1608, in two volumes folio. 3. A tranflation out of the 
Hebrew into Latin of the whole Old Teftament, already 
noticed. 4. A tranflation out of Greek into Latin of all 
the apochryphal books. 5. A tranflation from the Ara¬ 
bic into Latin of the ACls of the Apoftles, and the Epil- 
tles of St. Paul to the Corinthians. 6. A Hebrew Lexion. 
7. A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue. 8. Notes upon 
Cicero’s Epiftles to Atticus. 
JU'NIUS (Francis), fon of the former, was born at 
Heidelburgh in 1589. He was educated at Leyden, and 
his firft deltination was to the military profeffion; but the 
truce of 1609 caufed him to change this intention, and 
he devoted himfelf entirely to letters. The collecting and 
publiihing of fome of liis father’s works was his firlt lite¬ 
rary occupation. In 1640 he accompanied Thomas earl 
of Arundel to England, where he refided in the family of 
that nobleman as his librarian during thirty years. Being 
void of all ambition, and indifferent to the ufual objects of 
worldly purluit, he made ftudy the foie bulinefs of his life, 
and few men have ever fpent more hours in the day over 
books. Neither his health nor his-cheerfulnels were in¬ 
jured by fo much confinement, and he remained to old 
age free from the niorofenels and queruloufnefs which have 
too much attended men of letters. His frequent vifits to 
the Bodleian and other libraries introduced him to an ac¬ 
quaintance with books in the Anglo-Saxon dialeCt, which 
circumftance gave a decided turn to his ftudies. Convin¬ 
ced that he could dilcover in it the etymologies of all the 
tongues of northern Europe, he applied to it, and all the 
congenerous dialeds, with the greatelt affiduity ; and his 
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