(Joannes), a learned German, was descended from a noble family, and born at Amelbrun in Westphalia, 1533. He travelled through almost all the countries in Europe. While he was in Turkey, he collected very good materials for an "History of the Ottoman Empire;" which he published, and also several other pieces concerning it, in Latin. He gave Latin translations also of Xenophon, Zofimus, &c. To a knowledge of the learned languages he added that of the civil law. He died at Vienna in 1593, aged 60.