MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN, one of the most learned scholars of his day, was born at Ingelheim in 1489. At the age of sixteen he repaired to Tübingen to sit at the feet of Reuchlin and Stöffler. There his passion for study induced him to seek the quiet of a Franciscan convent. But becoming in course of time a convert to the opinions of Luther, he threw off his monastic habit, and was appointed professor of Hebrew at Basle in 1529. His days and nights were now devoted to study, and several elaborate treatises on geography, mathematics, and philology proceeded from his pen. At length the robust constitution which had carried him through so many severe labours was smitten by the plague, and he died in May 1552. The most important of Münster's works are the following:—An edition of the Biblia Hebraica, in 2 vols. fol., Basle, 1534-5 and 1546; Grammatica Chaldaica, 4to, Basle, 1527; Dictionaryum Chaldaicum, 4to, Basle, 1527; Dictionaryum Trilingue, in quo Latinis Vocabulis, Graeca et Hebraica respondent, fol., Basle, 1530; Horologographia, 4to, Basle, 1531; Organum Uranicum, fol., Basle, 1536; Cosmographia Universalis, fol., Basle, 1544; and Rudimenta Mathematica, fol., Basle, 1551.