TURNEBUS (Adrian), an eminent French critic, born of a genteel family in Normandy in 1512. He acquired so extensive a reputation by his learning, that he had great offers made him from Italy, Germany, and England; but we are told he preferred poverty in his own country to riches in any other. He taught polite literature first at Toulouse; but in 1547 went to be Greek professor at Paris, whither his name drew scholars to him from all parts of Europe: in 1552, he took upon him the care of the royal Greek press for three years, when he quitted it on being admitted into the number of royal professors. He died in 1565; and his works, which are all in Latin, were printed at Strasbourg, in one vol. folio, 1600. His Adversaria, 3 vols folio, had been printed at Paris before.