or Opitius (Martin), a celebrated German poet, born at Breslau in 1507. He acquired great fame by his Latin, and more by his German poems; and, retiring to Dantzig, wrote a history of the ancient... ancient Daci: he died of the plague in 1639.

Opits (Henry), a learned Lutheran divine, born at Altenburg in Misnia in 1642. He was professor of theology and of the oriental languages at Kiel, where he acquired great reputation by a variety of excellent works concerning oriental literature and Hebrew antiquities. He died in 1712.