RODOLPHUS, one of the greatest writers that Switzerland has given birth to. He was born in 1547, at Altorf near Zurich; obtained the freedom of Zurich; and was made provisor of the abbey-school. Notwithstanding this employment, he undertook a noble work of vast extent, which was a History of the Errors of Popery. Though he could HOSPITAL

Holpinian, not complete this work according to his plan, he published some considerable parts of it: what he published on the Eucharist, and another work called Concordia Difcors, exceedingly exasperated the Lutherans. He did not reply to them; but turning his arms against the Jesuits, published Historia Jesuica, &c. These writings gained him preferment; he being appointed archdeacon of Caroline church, and then minister of the abbey-church. He died in 1626; and there was an edition of his works published at Geneva 1681, in seven volumes in folio.