the name of several learned Germans.—John Henry Meibomius was professor of physic at Helmstadt, where he was born, and at Lubec; he wrote the Life of Maccenas, published at Leyden in 4to, 1653, with several other learned works. Henry, his son, was born at Lubec in 1658; became professor of physic at Helmstadt; and, besides works in his own profession, published Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, 3 vols folio, 1688; a very useful collection, first begun by his father.—Marcus Meibomius, of the same family, published a collection of seven Greek authors who had written upon ancient music, with a Latin version by himself, dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden, who invited him to her court. But the engaging him one day to sing an air of ancient music, while somebody was ordered to dance to it, the immoderate mirth which this occasioned in the spectators so disgusted him, that he immediately left the court of Sweden. His edition of the Greek mythologists, and notes upon Diogenes Laertius in Menage's edition, show him to have been a man of learning; but he suffered no little railing for his attempt to correct the Hebrew text of the Bible, by a kind of metre he fancied he had found out in those ancient writings.