MORELL, ANDRÉ, an eminent antiquary, was born at Berne, in Switzerland, on the 9th of June 1646. He turned his attention early to the study of numismatics, and in 1680 he went to Paris, where his reputation procured him admission into the society of the learned, and where, in 1683, he published Specimen Universæ Rei Nummariæ Antiquæ, a second edition of which, corrected and enlarged, appeared at Leipsic in 1695. The encouragement which was originally held out to him in Paris was not confirmed; and after being imprisoned for three years in the Bastille for the heinous offence of claiming the remuneration promised him as joint-keeper of the Royal Cabinet of Medals, he went to Germany in 1694, on the invitation of Count de Schwartzenburg-Arnstadt. Here he prosecuted the preparation of a great work on numismatics, but his labours were closed by death in 1703. Havercamp having collected and arranged his scattered materials, published, in 1734, Thesaurus Morellianus, sive Familiarum Romanarum Numismata Omnia, in 2 vols. folio; and, in conjunction with Schlegel and Gori, published in 1752, from Morell's MS., the Thesauri Morelliani Numismata Aurea, Argentea, Erea, cujusque moduli xii. priorum Imperatorum, Amsterdam, in 3 vols. folio.