JOHN, author of the Annals of Bavaria, was born of mean parentage, in the year 1466, at Abensberg in the country just named. He studied first at Ingolstadt, and afterwards in the university of Paris. In 1503, he privately taught eloquence and poetry at Vienna; and in 1507 he publicly taught Greek at Cracow in Poland. In 1529, he read lectures on some of Cicero's works at Ingolstadt: and in 1512, was appointed to be preceptor to Prince Louis and Prince Ernest, sons of Albert the Wise, duke of Bavaria, and travelled with the latter of these two princes. After this he undertook to write the annals of Bavaria; being encouraged by the dukes of that name, who settled a pension upon him, and gave him hopes that they would defray the charges of the book. This work, which gained its author great reputation, was first published in 1554, by Jerome Zieglerus, professor of poetry in the university of Ingolstadt; and afterwards at Bafel in 1580, by Nicholas Cisner. An affront which Aventine received in the year 1529, stuck by him all the rest of his life: he was forcibly taken out of his sister's house at Abensberg, and hurried to jail; the true cause of which violence was never known: but it would probably have been carried to a much greater length, had not the duke of Bavaria interposed, and taken this learned man into his protection. Mr Bayle remarks, that the incurable melancholy which from this time possessed Aventine, was so far from determining him to lead a life of celibacy, as he had done till he was 64, that it induced him perhaps to think of marrying. The violence of his new passion was not, however, so great, but that it suffered him to advise with two of his friends, and consult certain passages of the Bible relative to marriage. The result was, that it was best for him to marry; and having already lost too much time, considering his age, he took the first woman he met with, who happened to be his own maid, ill-tempered, ugly, and extremely poor. He died in 1534, aged 68; leaving one daughter, who was then but two months old. He had a son, who died before.