(John), a learned professor of Hebrew at Basle, who, in the 17th century, acquired the highest reputation for his knowledge of the Hebrew and Chaldee languages. He died of the plague at Basle in 1629, aged 65. His principal works are, 1. A small but excellent Hebrew grammar; the best edition of which is that of Leyden in 1701, revised by Leiden. 2. A treasure of the Hebrew grammar. 3. An Hebrew concordance, and several Hebrew lexicons. 4. Institutio epistolarii Hebraicae. 5. De abbreviaturis Hebrosorum, &c.

(John), the son of the former, and a learned professor of the oriental languages at Basle, distinguished himself, like his father, by his knowledge of the Hebrew language, and his rabbinical learning. He died at Basle in 1664, aged 65 years. His principal works are, 1. His translation of the More Novachim, and the Cozri. 2. A Chaldee and Syriac lexicon. 3. An anticritic against Cappel. 4. A treatise on the Hebrew points and accents against the same Cappel.