Joseph Justus**, one of the most learned critics and writers of his time. He was the son of Julius Caesar Scaliger, and was born at Agen, in France, in 1540. He studied in the college of Bordeaux, after which his father took him under his own care, and employed him in transcribing his poems. By this means he obtained such a taste for poetry, that before he was seventeen years old he wrote a tragedy upon the subject of *Edipus*, in which he introduced all the poetical ornaments of style and sentiment. His father having died in 1558, he went to Paris the year following, with a desire to apply himself to the Greek tongue. For this purpose he for two months attended the lectures of Turnebus; but finding that in the usual course he should be a long time in gaining his point, he shut himself up in his closet, and by constant application for two years gained a perfect knowledge of that language. After this he applied to the Hebrew, which he learned by himself with great facility. He made no less progress in the sciences; and his writings procured him the reputation of one of the greatest men of that or of any other age. He embraced the reformed religion at twenty-two years of age. In 1563 he attached himself to Louis Casteignier de la Roche Pozay, whom he attended in several journeys; and in 1593 he was invited to accept of the place of honorary professor of the University of Leyden, which he complied with. He died of a dropsy in that city in 1609. He was a man of great temperance, was never married, and was so close a student, that he often spent whole days in his study without eating; and though his circumstances were always very narrow, he constantly refused the presents that were offered him. The following are the principal works of this great critic, whose fame has well-nigh eclipsed that of his proud and subtle father:—*De Emendatione Temporum*, folio, Paris, 1583—his greatest work, connected with which was afterwards published his *Thesaurus Temporum, complectens Bucchii Pamphili Chronicon cum Isagogis Chronologiae Canonibus*, 2 vols., Amst. 1658. Among his minor works are his edition of Arabian proverbs, his *Poemata* and *Epistolae*, besides numerous commentaries, annotations, and editions of Varro, Theocritus, Manilius, Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Seneca the dramatist, Ausonius, Nonnus, Festus, and many other ancient authors. In all of those works we can trace the hand of the profound scholar and the sagacious critic; but his works are too frequently disfigured by great bitterness of spirit, and by the disgusting invectives which he showers on his opponents. The collections entitled *Scaligerana* were the idle pretensions of his father to an illustrious origin, and were collected from his conversations by one of his friends, and being ranged into alphabetical order, were published by Isaac Vossius.