LUBIN, EILHARD, was professor of poetry in the uni-
versity of Rostock in 1595, and ten years afterwards he was promoted to the professorship of divinity. He wrote notes upon Anacreon, Juvenal, Persius, and several other classics; but that which attracted the most notice was a treatise on the nature and origin of evil, entitled Phosphorus de Causa prima et Natura Mali, printed at Rostock in 1596, in which we find a curious hypothesis to account for the origin of moral evil. He supposed two co-eternal principles, not matter and vacuum, as Epicurus did, but God, and Nihilum, or Nothing. This hypothesis being attacked by Grawer, was defended by Lubin; but, after all, he is deemed to have been better acquainted with polite literature than with divinity. He died in 1621.