BURMAN, Francis, a learned biblical critic of the seventeenth century, was born at Leyden in 1632. At the age of twenty-three he became pastor of the Dutch congregation of Hanau in Germany, but in 1661 returned to Leyden as sub-rector of the College of Orders. From Leyden he removed to Utrecht, where he taught theology with much acceptance till his death in 1679. His works, which are very numerous, consist chiefly of commentaries on some of the Old Testament, and are written in Dutch, Latin, and German.