John, a learned philologer and rhetorician, was born at Sleida in Estel near Cologne in 1507. He studied at first in his native country with the sons of Count de Mandercheid, whose receiver his father was. He afterwards pursued his study at Liege in the college of St Jerom; and then went to Louvain in 1524. Five years he spent there, three in learning and two in teaching. He set up a printing-press with Rugger Recius professor of the Greek tongue, and printed several Greek authors. He went to Paris in 1529, where he was highly esteemed, and read public lectures on the Greek and Latin writers, and on logic. He married there, and kept a great number of boarders; but as he liked what were called the new opinions, he was more than once in danger; and this undoubtedly was the reason why he removed to Straiburg in 1537, in order to take possession of the place offered him by the magistrates. The year following he opened a school, which became

(y) "This practice is noticed, as the remedy which may be used for the defects arising from evasive measures, and as the method of giving spongy incrustations containing bone-ashes the greatest degree of hardness." became famous, and by his means obtained of Maximilian II. the title of an university in 1566. He was very well skilled in polite literature, wrote Latin with great purity, and was a good teacher. His talents were not confined to the school; for he was frequently intrusted with deputations in Germany and foreign countries, and discharged these employments with great honour and diligence. He showed extreme charity to the refugees on account of religion: He not only laboured to assist them by his advice and recommendations; but he even impoverished himself for them. He died in his 82nd year, after he had been for some time blind. He published many books; the principal of which are, 1. Partitiones Dialectice. 2. De Educatione Principum. 3. De Nobilitate Anglicana. 4. Lingua Latina resolvente Ratio. 5. Excellent Notes on Aristotle's and Hermogenes's Rhetoric, &c.

He ought not to be confounded with John Sturmius, a native of Mechlin, and physician and professor of mathematics at Louvain, who also wrote several works.