or MEIBOMIUS, MARC, a learned philologist, was born about 1630, at Tönningen in the duchy of Schleswig. His first work, a collection of seven ancient authors on music, was dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden, and procured for him an invitation to the court at Stockholm. There he lived for some time in the enjoyment of a pension from his royal patroness. At length, having undertaken, at the request of the queen, to conduct a concert in the manner of the ancient Greeks, he was so much offended at the roars of ridicule and laughter which his fantastic performance elicited from the courtiers, that he left Sweden immediately. He bent his steps towards Denmark, and there Frederick III appointed him his librarian, and gave him a chair in the university of Upsal. But in a short time some cause of discontent induced Meibom to vacate his offices, and to repair to Holland. His next appointment, the professorship of belles lettres in the university of Amsterdam, was taken from him after the lapse of a year, in consequence of his fastidious aversion to teach the sons of burgomasters. After sojournings in France for some time, he repaired to England in 1674, intent upon publishing a new edition of the Hebrew Bible; but his whimsical emendations on the sacred text met with no approval, and he was compelled to return to Amsterdam without having accomplished his cherished project. Towards the close of his life he was driven to sell a part of his library to supply his necessities. Marc Meibom died at Utrecht in 1711. The following is a list of his works:—Dialogus de Proportionibus, folio, Copenhagen, 1655; Antiquae Musicae Auctores Septem, in 2 vols. 4to, Amsterdam, 1652; De Veteri Fabrica Triremium, 4to, Amsterdam, 1671; Davidis Balon Duodecim et totidem Sacra Scripturae Vetoris Testamenti Integra Capita, prisco Hebræo Metro restituta, folio, Amsterdam, 1698. An edition of the ancient Greek mythologists, 8vo, Amsterdam, 1688, and an edition of the Lives of the Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius, in 2 vols. 4to, Amsterdam, 1692.