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PFEF'FIEL (-), author of a Hiftory of Ger¬ 
many, which is treated by Dr. Robertfon with great re- 
fpeCt. For t he laft fifty years he w-as occupied on the great 
theatre of public life, and was fuppofed to be better in¬ 
formed than any other character of the age, on the im¬ 
portant tranfa&ions of his time. He was confequently 
urged to continue his publications by thofe who were 
acquainted with his experience and abilities: but he 
always declined complying with their willies ; aligning 
as a reafon, “ that an crtenfible agent in political life 
ought not to publith the hiftory of his own times.” 
Pfeffiel died at Paris, in September 1807, at the age of Si. 
PFEF'FIKON, a toum of Swiflerland, in the canton of 
Zurich : ten miles ealt of Zurich. 
PFEF'FINGEN, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Rhine : four miles fouth of Bale. 
PFEIF'FER (Auguftus), a learned German Lutheran 
divine, and oriental fcholar, was born at Lauenburg in 
Lower Saxony, in the year 1640. The earlier part of his 
education he received at his native town and at Ham¬ 
burg; and he was afterwards fent to the univerfity of 
Wittemberg, where he took the degree of A. M. and 
applied with fuch fuccefs to the ftudy of oriental litera¬ 
ture, that in 1668 he was appointed profeflbr of the ori¬ 
ental languages. In 1671, he was made dean of Medzi- 
borin Silefia, and afieflor to the confiftory of Wirtemberg 
Oels. Two years afterwards he was chofen paftor of 
Stroppen ; whence he removed in 1675, to undertake the 
fame charge at Meiflen in Upper Saxony. In 16S1 he was 
created doCtorof divinity, made archdeacon of the church 
of St. Thomas at Leipfic, and nominated profeffor in or¬ 
dinary of the oriental languages, as well as profeffor ex¬ 
traordinary of divinity, in that univerfity. Thefe pofts 
he refigned in 1690, having been eleCted fuperintendant 
of the churches in the diftriCi of Lubec; which ftation he 
held till his death in 1698, when he was in the 58th year 
of his age. He left behind him an excellent library, 
containing a confiderable number of manuferipts in rab¬ 
binical Hebrew, the Arabic, Turkifh, Perfian, Chinefe, 
and other languages. He was the author of a variety of 
works, in facred criticifm and Jewifli antiquities, the 
principal of which are the following: 1, Critica Sacra, 
de facri Codicis Partitione, Editionibus variis Linguis 
orientalibus, Puritate Fontium, Interpretatatione faerte 
Scripturae legitima, Tranflationibus, Mafora, Cabbala, 
&c. 1680, 8vo. 2. Dubia vexata Sacrae Scripturae, five 
Loca difficiliora Veteris Teftamenti fuccinCte decifa qua- 
tuor Centuriis, 1679, 4(0. afterwards publifhed with en¬ 
largements, and the addition of ten dilfertations, which 
had been feparately printed at different periods. Several 
of his works were afterwards collected together, and pub¬ 
lifhed in 1704., in 2 vols. 4-to. Le Long's Bill. Sacra, 
vol. ii. 
PFER'SDORF, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: 
three miles fouth of Kiflingen. 
PFE'TER, a town of Bavaria, on a fmall river of the 
fame name: nine miles north-weft of Straubing, and 
fourteen eaft of Ratifbon.—A river of Bavaria, which 
runs into the Danube near the town of Pfeter. 
PFEU'TERBACH, a river of Baden, which runs into 
the Rhine five miles weft of Etlingen. 
PFIN, a town of Swiflerland, in the Valais: twelve 
miles eaft of Sion. 
PFINZ, a river of the duchy of Baden, which rifes 
about a mile north from Wildbad, pafles by Durlach, &c. 
and runs into the Rhine about a mile above Germer- 
fheim. 
PFLAU, a town of the county of Tyrol: fixteen miles 
weft of Bolzano. 
PFLUG (Julius), an eminent German catholic pre¬ 
late, was born about the year 1490, but in what place we 
are not informed. He was defeended from a noble and 
diftinguifhed family; and, having been educated to the 
church, was made canon of Mentz and provoft of Zeits. 
His merits as well as his birth made him known at court, 
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where he w'as patronifed by the emperors Charles V. and 
Ferdinand I. Having been railed to the bifliopric of 
Naumberg in the Palatinate, his enemies expelled him on 
the very day of his election, and found means to keep 
him out from the pofleflion of his fee for fix years; but 
at the expiration of that period, Charles eftablifhed him 
in it with much diftinClion. He was one of the three di¬ 
vines who were employed by that prince in drawing up 
his famous projeCt of the Interim; and he prefided as his 
reprefentative in the diets of the empire at Ratifbon. 
Ferdinand I. placed fo high a confidence in his judgment 
and capacity, that he was governed by his advice in the 
moft momentous and difficult affairs. He diftinguifhed 
liimfelf, likewife, by his controverfial writings againft the 
Lutherans. After he had retired to his fee, he prefided 
over it in peace for about eighteen years; and is com¬ 
mended for the exemplary fidelity and paternal afteCtion 
with which he governed his flock. He died in 1564, 
about the age of 74. He was the author of, 1. Inftitu- 
tio Chriftiana Ecclefiae Numburgenfis. 2. De Reipubli- 
cte Inftitutione ad Principes et Populum Germ3nias. 3. 
De Inftitutione Hominis Chriftiani. 4. De Juftitia et 
Salute Chriftiani Hominis. 5. De vero Dei cultu. 6. De 
Creatione Mundi ; and feveral doCtrinal and controver¬ 
fial treatifes in Latin and German. Moreri. 
PFO'RING, a town of Bavaria, furrounded with walls, 
on the Danube: fourteen miles eaft of Ingoldftadt, and 
feven w’eft of Abenfperg. 
PFOR'TE, or Schulp'forte, a town of Saxony, in 
Thuringia, on the Saale. In it was formerly a confider¬ 
able Ciftertian rnonaftery ; now turned into a charity- 
fchool : two miles fouth-weft of Naumburg. 
PFOR'TEN, a town of Lufatia: twelve miles fouth 
of Guben, and fixty-two north-north-eaft of Drefden, 
PFORZ'HEIM, a city of the grand duchy of Baden, 
feated on the Entz, which at this place receives the Na- 
gold and Wurm. Pforzheim contains 5301 inhabitants. 
It comprehends a fpecial fuperintendency, a gramtnar- 
fchool, and an orphan-houfe : eight miles fouth-eaft of 
Durlach, and twenty weft-north-weft of Stuttgart. Lat. 
48. 58. N. Ion. 8. 50. E. 
PFRA'MA, a town of Auftria: fix miles fouth-fouth- 
weft ofMarckeck. 
PFREIMBDT, a town of Bavaria, in the principa¬ 
lity of Leuchtenberg, on the Nab: fifteen miles fouth- 
weft of Leuchtenberg, and eleven eaft of Amberg. 
PFREIMTSCH, a river of Bavaria which runs into 
the Nab at Pfreimbdt. 
PFUL'LENDORF, a town of the grand duchy of Ba¬ 
den, formerly governed by counts of its own, but in the 
year 1180 transferred to the emperor Frederic. In 1204 
it was made imperial, and continued fo till, in 1802, it 
was given among the indemnities to the margrave of Ba¬ 
den : fourteen miles weft-north-weft of Ravenfpurg, and 
eighteen north-north-eaft of Conftance. Lat. 47. 52. N. 
Ion. 9. 18. E. 
PFUL'LINGEN, a town of Wurtemberg: two miles 
fouth of Reutlingen, and twenty fouth of Stuttgart. 
PFUNT, a town of the county of Tyrol: fifteen miles 
weft of Bolzano. 
PFYN, a town of Swiflerland, in the canton of Zurich, 
and capital of a bailiwick: feven miles weft of Conftance, 
and twenty-eight north-eaft of Zurich. 
PHA'CA, J'. [a name borrowed by Linnaeus from 
Diofcorides, whole neverthelefs agrees no further 
with the Linnaean genus, than in being a papilionaceous 
and leguminous plant.] Bastard Vetch, orBASE Milk- 
Vetch ; in botany, a genus of the clafs diadeiphia, order 
decandria, natural order of papilionaceae or leguminofie. 
Generic characters—Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, tu¬ 
bular, five-toothed. Corolla papilionaceous; ftandard 
obovate, ftraight, larger; wings oblong, blunt, ftiorter; 
keel fiiort, comprefled, blunt. Stamina : filaments dia- 
delphous, (fimple and nine-cleft;) antherse roundifti, 
afeending. Piltillum : germ oblong; ltyle awl-fhaped, 
afeending; 
