JUNIUS, Francis, professor of divinity at Leyden, was born at Bourges in 1545, and studied some time at Lyons. Bartholomew Aneau, who was principal of the college in that city, gave him excellent instructions as to the right method of prosecuting his studies. He was employed in public affairs by Henry IV., and at last invited to Leyden to be professor of divinity; an employment which he discharged with honour, till he was snatched away by the plague in 1602. Du Pin says he was a learned and judicious critic. He wrote, in conjunction with Emmanuel Tremellius, a Latin version of the Hebrew text of the Bible; and he also published Commentaries on the greater
part of the Holy Scriptures, besides many other works, all in Latin.