JOHANN, a distinguished German scholar, was born in 1608 at Ulm in Swabia. He taught rhetoric and belles lettres at Upsal, became librarian to Christina of Sweden, and finally a professor in the university of Heidelberg, where he died in 1660. Freinsheim is best known by his supplement to Livy, which he wrote as a substitute for the lost books of that historian. His imitation of the mere form of Livy's style is very close and sufficiently happy, but as he wanted Livy's other great historical qualities, his "supplement" may rather be regarded as a literary curiosity than a contribution to history. Freinsheim wrote also a supplement to Curtius, and a commentary on that author's works, as also on those of Florus, besides some minor compositions of little value.