George, a German physician, famous for his skill in metals. He was born at Glaucha, in Mifonia, the 24th of March 1494. The discoveries which he made in the mountains of Bohemia, gave him to great a desire of examining accurately into every thing relating to metals, that though he had engaged in the practice of physic at Joachimsthal by advice of his friends, he still prosecuted his study of fossils with great assiduity; and at length removed to Chemnitz, where he entirely devoted himself to this study. He spent in pursuit of it the pension he had of Maurice duke of Saxony, and part of his own estate; so that he reaped more reputation than profit from his labours. He wrote several pieces upon this and other subjects; and died at Chemnitz the 21st of November 1555, a very firm Papist. In his younger years he seemed not adverse to the Protestant doctrine; and he highly disapproved of the scandalous traffic of indulgences, and several other things in the church of Rome. The following lines of his were posted up in the streets of Zwickaw, in the year 1519:

Si nos injeceta salvebit cistula nummo, Heu nimirum infelix tu mihi, pauper, eris! Si nos, Christe, tua servos morte bedisti, Tum nihil infelix tu mihi, pauper, eris.

If wealth alone salvation can procure, How sad a state for ever waits the poor! But if thou, Christ, our only saviour be, Thy merits still may blest ev'n poverty!

In the latter part of his life, however, he had attacked the Protestant religion: which rendered him odious to the Lutherans, that they suffered his body to remain unburied for five days together; so that it was obliged to be removed from Chemnitz to Zeits, where it was interred in the principal church.

John, a Saxon divine, born at Eisleben in 1492. He went as chaplain to Count Mansfeld, when that nobleman attended the elector of Saxony to the diet at Spire in 1526, and that of Augsburg in 1530. He was of a restless, ambitious temper, rivalled and wrote