LAURENTIUS, a German scholar, was born at Sarwerden in 1546, and was educated at the expense of the Count of Stoiberg. The great effort of his life was to revive Greek learning. He studied it closely at the university of Rostock. He then taught it with enthusiasm at Jena. His zeal in the same cause did not cease after his translation in 1601 to the chair of history at Wittenberg. He continued to write Greek verses, and to edit and translate Greek works till shortly before his death in 1606. Among the most important publications by Rhodomann are the following editions of Greek authors:—Anonymi Poeta Graecæ, Svo, Leipsic, 1588; Quintus Calaber, Hanover, 1604; and Diodorus Siculus, in 2 vols., Hanover, 1604.