JOB, a very learned writer of the 17th century, was born at Erfurt in Thuringia. He travelled much, and was master of 25 languages, visited libraries, searched after natural curiosities and antiquities everywhere, and conversed with learned men of all nations. He published a History of Ethiopia, and other curious books.

HENRY WILLIAM, nephew of Job above mentioned, was born at Erfurt in 1655. He came over to England as secretary to M. Lenthe, envoy from the court of Copenhagen to that of London; and being recommended to Prince George of Denmark, was received as his secretary. He enjoyed this office for some years, until he was incapacitated by a violent disorder; when he was discharged with a handsome pension; after he recovered, he travelled into Muscovy, where he was well received by the czar, and where his knowledge made the Muscovite priests suppose him to be a conjurer. On his return to London in 1694, he was cut for the stone; and as soon as his health would permit, in acknowledgement of the civilities he had received in Muscovy, he wrote a grammar of their language, that the natives might learn their own tongue in a regular method. He then travelled into the East, to inform himself of the state of the Christian church. LUGDUNUM in Ancient Geography, the capital of the Segusiavi in Gallia Celtica, situated at the confluence of the Arar and Rhodanus, on an eminence, as the Celtic term *dune* signifies; built by Manutius Plancus under Augustus, while commanding in that part of Gaul; and whither he led a colony. Now Lyons, capital of the Lyonnais.

LUGDUNUM Batavorum, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Batavi in Gallia Belgica. Now Leyden in Holland.

LUGDUNUM Converarum, in Ancient Geography, a town of Gaul in Aquitain, at the foot of the Pyrenees. Now S. Bertrand, in Gascony.