WILLIAM, an eminent linguist and philologer, was born at Utrecht, in 1541. He studied at Louvain and Paris; and gave surprising proofs of his progress in Greek and Latin literature. He afterwards visited the several universities of Germany and Italy; and died at Louvain, in 1575, aged 33. He understood five languages, besides that of his native country; and, notwithstanding his dying too young, wrote several philological and critical works, among which are, Notae, Scholi, Emendationes, et Explicationes, in Euripidem, Sophoclem, Ephylem, Ciceronem, Perpetium, Aesopum, &c. and many translations of Greek authors.