DANIEL ERNEST, a learned Polish Protestant divine, born at Danzig in 1665. He became successively minister of Magdeburg, Lübeck, Königsberg, and Berlin; and was at length ecclesiastical counsellor, and president of the academy of sciences at the latter. He took great pains to effect an union between the Lutherans and Calvinists; and wrote some works which are in good esteem, particularly Meditations on the origin of the Scriptures, &c. He died in 1741.

Theodore, counsellor of the court of Prussia, and secretary of the royal academy of sciences in Berlin, was also a man of distinguished merit. He loved the sciences, and did them honour, without that ambition which is generally seen in men of learning; it was owing to this modesty that the greatest part of his works were published without his name. He published, in 1711, a French and German Dictionary; a Course of Morality, in 1715; a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1721; and translated Tacitus de moribus Germanorum into High Dutch, in 1724.