Kleinarts, Nicholas, a celebrated grammarian of the sixteenth century, was born at Diest, in Brabant, in 1495; and after having taught humanity at Louvain, where he had studied, he travelled into France, Spain, Portugal, and Africa. Clenard's works are, 1. Tuba in Grammaticam Hebraeam, Louvain, 1529, 8vo; 2. Institutiones Linguae Graecae, Louvain, 1530, composed with the aid of Rescius; 3. Meditatiores Graecae, Louvain, 1531; 4. Epistolae Libri duo, Louvain, 1550, 8vo. Clenard died at Grenada, on his return from Africa, in 1542.