KUHNIUS (Joachim), a learned German critic, was born at Gripswalde in Pomerania, in 1647. He was, in 1669, made principal of the college at Oettingen in Swabia: in 1676, he was elected Greek professor in the principal college at Strasburg; and after acquitting himself with honour for ten years in this capacity, was made Greek and Hebrew professor in the same university. His uncommon skill in the Greek language drew a great number of scholars about him, from very distant places; and he published some classic authors with very learned notes both explanatory and critical. He died in 1697.