Hermann Samuel, a German, who was born at Hamburg in 1694, and was educated at the university of Wittenberg, is distinguished for his services in several departments of learning. His first fame was gained as the author of Primitia Wisanariensia, 4to, 1723. Then, settling down at Hamburg in 1727 as professor of philosophy, he became one of the brightest ornaments of the university of that city. His marriage in the following year with the daughter of J. A. Fabricius was the means of introducing him into other fields of labour. He assisted that eminent scholar in preparing his philological works; and after his death he published a Latin memoir of him, 8vo, Hamburg, 1737. Nor did a delicate constitution; and the growing infirmities of age, prevent him from entering upon the new study of natural history. He published Observations, Physical and Moral, on the Instinct of Animals, in 2 vols. 12mo, Hamburg, 1760. Other researches on the same subject would also have appeared had not death, in 1768, cut short his career. The other works of Reimarus are,—A Letter to Cardinal Quirini concerning the Works of Dion Cassius, 4to, Hamburg, 1746; The Roman History of Dion Cassius, in 2 vols. folio, Hamburg, 1750-53; and A Discourse on the Principal Truths of Natural Religion, 8vo, Hamburg, 1754, a popular treatise, of which a seventh edition appeared in 8vo, 1798. He is also the reputed author of the famous Wolfenbüttel Fragments, published by Lessing in 1774 and 1777.