(John Frederic), a very learned critic, was born at Hamburg in 1613; and having travelled through Germany, Italy, and France, was made professor of polite learning at Deventer, and afterwards at Leyden, where he died in 1671. He published, 1. Diatribe in Stati, &c. 2. De fertilitate. 3. Correct editions of Seneca, Statius, T. Livy, Pliny's Natural History, Tacitus, Aulus Gellius, Phaedrus's Fables, &c. with notes; and other works.