CUSPINIAN (John), a German, was born at Sweinfurt in 1473; and died at Vienna in 1529. He was first physician to the emperor Maximilian I. and employed by that prince in several delicate negotiations. We have of him in Latin, 1. A history of the Roman emperors from Julius Cæsar to the death of Maximilian I. Degory Wheare, in his Methodus Legendæ Historiæ, calls this "luculentum sane opus, & omnium lectione dignissimum." 2. An history of Austria; being a kind of continuation of the preceding. 3. An history of the origin of the Turks, and of their cruelties towards Christians. Gerard Vossius calls Cuspinian magnum suo ævo historiæ lumen.