(Ulric), a learned German, born of a noble family at Strasburg in 1646, where he filled the chairs of civil law and history with great distinction. He was of the Protestant religion; but when Lewis XIV. made himself master of Strasburg, and went there with his court, he was prevailed on to change; and accordingly abjured in 1684, and put his instrument into the hands of Bossuet bishop of Meaux. The next year the king nominated him to preside in his name in the senate of Strasbourg, with the title of prætor royal, in imitation of the ancient Romans; from which time Mr Obrecht applied himself entirely to public affairs. He was the editor, translator, and writer, of several learned works; and died in 1701.