WITSIUS (Herman), a learned and eminent divine of North Holland, born at Enckhuijsen in 1626. He was professor of divinity successively at Franeker, Utrecht, and Leyden; and applied himself successfully to oriental learning, of which his capital work Egyptiaca affords sufficient proof. His Oeconomy of the Covenant between God and Man, is warmly recommended by Mr Hervey in his Theron and Aspasio. He died in 1708.